Quotes from G. I. Gurdjieff

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

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.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

Patience is the mother of will.

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.

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

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

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.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

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.

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.