Citas de G. I. Gurdjieff

• 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.

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  Life, Kindness, Helping Others

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• 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.

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  Espiritual, Media, Hombres

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

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  Men, Doe, Awakening

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

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  People, Devil, People Skills

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• 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.

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  Lying, Men, Order

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• 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.

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  Leader, Trying, Slavery

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

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  Real, Love Is, World

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

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  Sleep, Growth, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Gente, Intentar, Diferente

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• 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.

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  Death, Prayer, Numbers

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

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  Faith, Emotional, Slavery

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• El despertar sólo es posible para quienes lo buscan y lo desean, para quienes están dispuestos a luchar consigo mismos y a trabajar sobre sí mismos durante mucho tiempo y con mucha perseverancia para alcanzarlo.

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  Struggle, Order, Long

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• 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.

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  Hombres, Dar, Comprender

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• 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.

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  Men, Insightful, Evolution Of Man

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• He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

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  Powerful, Disease, Chance

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• If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

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  Men, Law, Circles

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• Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

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  Pasos

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• Sin lucha, no hay progreso ni resultados. Cada ruptura de un hábito produce un cambio en la máquina.

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  Struggle, Progress, Machines

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• Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

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  Men, Mercy Of God, Things In Life

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

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  Science, Law, Miracle

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• One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.

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  Mistake, Reality, Men

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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

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  Spiritual, Real, Body

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• Man has no individual 'I'. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, 'I'. And each time his 'I' is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Nombres

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

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  Littles, Needs, Knows

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• Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

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  Struggle, Opportunity, Remember You

  Aphorisms inscribed in a special script above the walls of the Study House at the Prieuré, www.gurdjieff.org.

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