G.I. Gurdjieff Quotes
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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.
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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.
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.