Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWhat is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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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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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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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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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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