"Let us take some event in the life……" — G I Gurdjieff
"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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G I Gurdjieff
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70 Quotes by G I Gurdjieff
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped.…
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they…
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will…
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits…
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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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Life is real only then, when "I am".
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is…
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all…
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