If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThere is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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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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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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