G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
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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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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.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.
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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.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
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Hope of consciousness is strength.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.