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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAs long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
More G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Never think of results, just do!
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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