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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Body Consciousness Love Response Type
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Compassionate Death Love Realize True Yourself
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
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
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
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

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