Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on Meditation and the Devil
“If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
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Awareness and Presence – Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff
“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on the Multiple ‘I’ of Man
“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.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on Help and Natural 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.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Fred Hoyle on the Probability of Complex Order
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”
Fred Hoyle
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi on Being Right and Anger
“When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on Truth and Self-Knowledge
“There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Religion and Existence – Quote by Fred Hoyle
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.”
Fred Hoyle
Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff about Good and Evil
“One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Denis Diderot on Human Tendencies
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
Denis Diderot