Top 97 Gurdjieff Quotes
#1. Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.
Rajneesh
#4. The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#5. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#6. Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#7. SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
RUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.
Idries Shah
#8. If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#9. Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#10. He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#11. You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#13. As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#14. Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!
G.I. Gurdjieff
#16. What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#17. Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#18. Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff
#19. It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#20. Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#22. I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#23. 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
#24. Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#28. If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#29. Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
George Gurdjieff
#30. One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#32. Consider everything belonging to another as if it were your own, and so treat it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#33. What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#34. 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
#35. Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself - only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#36. Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#37. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#38. Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#39. To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#40. You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#41. Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#42. Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#43. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being ... It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#44. One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#45. Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feelings is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#46. Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#47. When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty - what difference does it make what your decisions are?
Idries Shah
#48. It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#49. Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#50. Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#51. A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#52. With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#55. It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#56. Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
Idries Shah
#57. Everything existing in the world "falls to the bottom." The "bottom" for any part of the Universe is its nearest "stability," and this stability is the point toward which all the lines of force from all directions converge.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#58. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#59. The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#60. Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#61. If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#62. There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#63. I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle ... you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#65. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#66. Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#67. Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#68. Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#69. Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#70. The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#71. 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
#72. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#73. The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#74. Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#75. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#77. 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
#78. Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#79. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#80. To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#82. Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#83. The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#84. 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
#85. Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
Idries Shah
#86. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#87. 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
#89. An honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#90. 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
#91. The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#92. From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#93. 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
#94. You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#95. My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#96. Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found ... Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#97. If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G.I. Gurdjieff
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