George Gurdjieff

Mystic and spiritual teacher.

A spiritual teacher and mystic whose teachings focus on the development of self-awareness, personal transformation, and the attainment of higher consciousness. He emphasized the importance of breaking free from automatic behaviors and unconscious patterns to achieve true freedom and self-mastery. His teachings, often unconventional and challenging, have influenced spiritual seekers and intellectuals seeking a deeper understanding of the self and reality.

George Gurdjieff Quotes about Sleep

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Better to die than live in sleep.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.
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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 severals of sleeping people are trying to destroy severals 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.
George Gurdjieff
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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
George Gurdjieff
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