Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove 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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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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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