It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Sincerity 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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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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