What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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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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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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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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