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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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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Knowledge Necessary
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Compensation Law Thorn World
Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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Body Consciousness Disease Feeling Hope Slave Strength
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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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation
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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Compassionate Death Love Realize True Yourself
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
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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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
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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Circle Humanity Important Lose Move Past Progress
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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God Infinite Life Man Mercy Stupidity
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself

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