Life is real only then, when “I am”.
G. I. GURDJIEFFPatience is the mother of will.
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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.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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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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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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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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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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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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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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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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