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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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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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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
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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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Two things in life are infinite the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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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Practice love on animals first they react better and more sensitively.
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Only super-efforts count.
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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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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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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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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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