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Quotes from All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men — G. I. Gurdjieff

1860–1949 Armenia

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Love of God—but indifference to the saints.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Hope of receiving reward only for merit.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Remorse of conscience for the ill-treatment of animals.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Belief in receiving punishment for disobedience.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Joy in being content merely with what one has.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Fearlessness towards devils, snakes and mice.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Sorrow at the loss of the goodwill of others.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Fear of grieving parents and teachers.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

The striving early to earn one's bread.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

Patient endurance of pain and hunger.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

'Yes, Professor, knowledge and understanding are quite different. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

It is very difficult to explain what takes place in me when I see or hear anything majestic which allows no doubt that it proceeds from the actualization of Our Maker Creator. Each time, my tears flow of themselves. I weep, that is to say, it weeps in me, not from grief, no, but as if from tenderness.

All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. I. Gurdjieff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.