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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
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
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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Debt Help Life Mathematics Nature
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
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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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
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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Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Blood Common Goal Strong
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Fake Himself Lying Man Order Truth Understand
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself

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