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G. I. Gurdjieff

" If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

People , Devil , Skills

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" 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. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Kindness , Life , Others , Helping

" You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Sleep , Growth , Firsts

" The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Slavery , Trying , Leader

" If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

People , Devil , Skills

" Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Men , Doe

" 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. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Prayer , Death , Numbers

" Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

People , Trying , Different

" A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Men , Order , Lying

" 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. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Men , Spiritual , Mean

" Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Love , World , Real

" Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Faith , Slavery , Emotional

" Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Struggle , Order , Long

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