My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWhat you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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It 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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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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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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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