Understanding Knowledge

Without self knowledge, without

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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. G. I. Gurdjieff

Hire and promote first

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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put … Read more

We have the ability

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We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught up in identifying ourselves as being the droplet, which cannot disconnect us literally from the ocean but does disconnect us from the awareness of the ocean, which means that we isolate our point … Read more

Everything that irritates us

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

Knowledge comes, but wisdom

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom is not a

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein