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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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#People #Trying #Different
“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Real #Body #Spirituality
“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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Lying #Men #Order
“Patience is the mother of will.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Patience #Mother
“As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Ideas #Long
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Believe #Belief #Verify
“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Men #Two #Stupidity
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Change #Mistake #Men
“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Men #Doe #Awakening
“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Want #Priests
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Spiritual #Knowledge #Acceptance
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Law #Satisfaction #Pleasure
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Faith #Emotional #Slavery
“Love without knowledge is demonic.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Demonic
“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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Mean #Order #Littles
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Mean #Men #Self
“Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Powerful #Wish #World
“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Stories #Untold Stories #Evolution
“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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Animal #Meat #Climate
“With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Law #Rose #World
“One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Men #Evil #Doe
“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Men #Use
“All who have come to me must have enema each day.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Each Day
“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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Struggle #Data #Two
“Only super-efforts count.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Effort
“Common aim is stronger than blood.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Blood #Stronger #Common
“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.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Karma #Book #Taken
“Life is real only then, when "I am".”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Life #Real #Life Is
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Death #Men #Different
“From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.”
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Men #Views #Mind

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