Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe 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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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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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.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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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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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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