It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. GURDJIEFFSincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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