Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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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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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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