“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.” ThinkingMenFeelsDoePhilosophyAbleReligionFantasy Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“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.” KnowsMenLittlesDoeStatesConsciousnessContradiction Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.” KnowsMenHumansDoeWarGodSpiritualityHuman BeingsCrimeConsciousQuarrels Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.” KnowsMenDoeRealizingAwakening Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.” PeopleIfsTryingDoeWarMomentsHumanityCoursesSleepMillionsEventsWake UpInstancePresent MomentOwing Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“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.” MenGivingFeelsDoeUnderstandingDependsIncreaseRelationConnectedSenses Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“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.” MenWayMayDoeDifferentEvilInterestSakeDifferent WaysConceptionSubjective Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
