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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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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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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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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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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man a way that is against Nature and against God.
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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 is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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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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He who has gotten rid of the disease of tomorrow has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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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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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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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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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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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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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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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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