My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWithout struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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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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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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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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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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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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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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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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