G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Life is real only then, when "I am".
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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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.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Never think of results, just do!
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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Only super-efforts count.
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.
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Better to die than live in sleep.