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By teaching others you will learn yourself.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Practice love on animals first they react better and more sensitively.
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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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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 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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Never think of results, just do!
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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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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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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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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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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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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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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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