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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Awake Beginning Man Realize Unknown
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
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
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Awake Place Sleep System Yourself
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

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