Remember yourself always and everywhere.
G. I. GURDJIEFFRemember yourself always and everywhere.
G. I. GURDJIEFFIn properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
G. I. GURDJIEFFHope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFFReal love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLaughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLife is real only then, when “I am”.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFFYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFFAwakening 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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWithout self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWhat is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G. I. GURDJIEFFMan has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTake the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWithout struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
G. I. GURDJIEFFLove without knowledge is demonic.
G. I. GURDJIEFF