G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

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.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.