A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.
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The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Here we can only direct and create conditions, but not help.
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Only help him who is not an idler.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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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.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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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.
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A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Man such as we know him, is a machine.
In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.
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