G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes - Page 2

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• Man has no individual 'I'. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, 'I'. And each time his 'I' is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Thinking, Names

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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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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• Patience is the mother of will.

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  Patience, Mother

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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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• 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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  Heart, Reality, Desire

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• Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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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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  Type, Relation, Oneself

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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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  Lying, Men, Order

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• Never think of results, just do!

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Thinking, Results

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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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  Ignorance, People, Slavery

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• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

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  Struggle, Progress, Machines

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• 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

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.

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  Men, Giving, Understanding

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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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  Law, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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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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• 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.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Keys, Doors, Trying

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

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• One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.

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  Mistake, Reality, Men

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

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  Tea, Cups, Spirituality

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

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  War, Sleep, People

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• There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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

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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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• Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

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  Understanding, East, West

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• By teaching others you will learn yourself.

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  Teaching, Teaching Others

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

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• Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

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  Ends, Born, Dies

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• Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve and transmit knowledge. In olden days, people did not write books, they incorporated their knowledge into works of art. We would find a great many ideas in the works of ancient art passed down to us, if only we knew how to read them.

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  Art, Book, Writing

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