Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: A sin is something which is not necessary. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen." [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: 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. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feelings is slavery
Hope of body is disease. [George Gurdjieff]
Quote: Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity. [George Gurdjieff]