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Better to die than live in sleep.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man a way that is against Nature and against God.
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To know all, it is necessary to know very little but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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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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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.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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