My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPractice 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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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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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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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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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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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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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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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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