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.
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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Never think of results, just do!
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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 only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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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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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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