What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPersonality 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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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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.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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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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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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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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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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