You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIt 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.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Only super-efforts count.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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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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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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