Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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The 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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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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