If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate. — G. I. Gurdjieff Devil Copy Share Image
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it… — G. I. Gurdjieff Blessed Copy Share Image
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease. — G. I. Gurdjieff Body Copy Share Image
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. — G. I. Gurdjieff Bad habits Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he… — G. I. Gurdjieff Consciousness Copy Share Image
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution… — G. I. Gurdjieff Consciousness Copy Share Image
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment -… — G. I. Gurdjieff Death Copy Share Image
Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects,… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Ancient Copy Share Image
From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by… — G. I. Gurdjieff Essence Copy Share Image
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody… — G. I. Gurdjieff Conception Copy Share Image
The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often… — G. I. Gurdjieff Action Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real… — G. I. Gurdjieff Freedom Copy Share Image
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future. — G. I. Gurdjieff Future Copy Share Image
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering. — G. I. Gurdjieff Inspirational Copy Share Image
