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Better to die than live in sleep.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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Practice love on animals first they react better and more sensitively.
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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of tomorrow has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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