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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Consist Growth Habit Man
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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Death Moments Motivational Realize Strong Work Yourself
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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People Stop Togetherness War Way
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
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

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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