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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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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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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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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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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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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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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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