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Quote by George Gurdjieff
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alte

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. – George Gurdjieff

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. – George Gurdjieff

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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. – George Gurdjieff

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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. – George Gurdjieff

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. – G. K. Chesterton

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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

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