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By teaching others you will learn yourself.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Only super-efforts count.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.
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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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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Never think of results, just 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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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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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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Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
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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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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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