The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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.
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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Never think of results, just do!
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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