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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFTime began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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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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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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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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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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