Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIf 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.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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