"Man is, in the full sense of the term, a 'miniature universe'; in him are all the matters of which the universe consists; the same forces, the same laws that govern the life of the universe, operate in him; therefore in studying man we can study the whole world, just as in studying the world we can study man."
(Gurdjieff speaking in P.D. Ouspensky's "In Search of the Miraculous," p.88)

"Now practically the Work is not to get something we have not but to get rid of something we have, so as to make room."(Maurice Nicoll, Commentaries, Vol.V, p.1654)