From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPatience is the mother of will.
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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Only super-efforts count.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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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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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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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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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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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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