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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPractice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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 help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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