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Quotes from All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson — G. I. Gurdjieff

1860–1949 Armenia

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

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Every one of those unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them that has swallowed up the whole of their Essence, and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it.

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

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