G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

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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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  Death, Prayer, Numbers

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• A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.

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  Lying, Men, Order

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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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  Leader, Trying, Slavery

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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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  Men, Doe, Awakening

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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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  People, Trying, Different

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• If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

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  People, Devil, People Skills

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• You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

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  Sleep, Growth, Firsts

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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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  Men, Insightful, Evolution Of Man

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

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  Easy, Inner Life

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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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  Life, Kindness, Helping Others

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• Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

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  Struggle, Order, Long

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• Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

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  Faith, Emotional, Slavery

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• Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

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  Steps

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• Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Things In Life

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• If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

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  Men, Law, Circles

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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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  Real, Love Is, World

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• Never think of results, just do!

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  Thinking, Results

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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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  Spiritual, Real, Body

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• I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

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  Believe, Belief, Verify

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by G. I. Gurdjieff, 1973.

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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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  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Men

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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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  Struggle, Opportunity, Remember You

  Aphorisms inscribed in a special script above the walls of the Study House at the Prieuré, www.gurdjieff.org.

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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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  Wish, Realization, May

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• Believe nothing, not even yourself.

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  Believe

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• A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

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  Science, Law, Miracle

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