The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world. - George Gurdjieff

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The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world.

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About George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Russian: Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев, Georgij Ivanovich Gjurdzhiev; 13 January c. 1867 – 29 October 1949) was a Greco-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher of what came to be called "the Work" or "The Fourth Way", in which he taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy through various awareness exercises. According to his teachings, such inner development is the beginning of a possible further process of change, and spiritual evolution.

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Native Name: Γεώργιος Γεωργιάδης Գեորգի Իվանովիչ Գյուրջիև
Alternative Names: Georges Gurdjieff Ivanovitch Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
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Namely, to learn why and in what manner my suffering in this instance could assist in the increase of my labor-ability. The beneficent result for me from this “Inner-World Revolution” occurring within me was that from that moment on I could freely, without influence of partial feelings, again think in my habitual way.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

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On Sunday, namely the day dedicated to music and song, the learned beings belonging to this group produced every kind of ‘melody’ on various ‘sound-producing instruments,’ as well as with their voices, and then explained to all the other learned beings how the knowledge they wished to transmit was indicated in these works of theirs.

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