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G. I. Gurdjieff
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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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.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of tomorrow has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.
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Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
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