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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Best Learning Mindset Realize Work 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
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
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
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
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
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
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
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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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
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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Blessing Grief Himself Soul

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