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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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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Freedom Function Government Himself Knowledge Slave Understand Work
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
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
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
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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Cosmos Force Greatness Love Power Reality World
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
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
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
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Attainment Beginning Sacrifice Suffering Time
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible

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