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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFEvery 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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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In 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.
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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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Only super-efforts count.
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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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