G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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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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The 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.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.
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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.