Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThat which is easy is bad for your inner life.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Patience is the mother of will.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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