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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
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
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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People Stop Togetherness War Way
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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Consciousness General Himself Known Man See State
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
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
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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
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
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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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify

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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