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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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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Different Man Possible Quite Realize
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Conscious Crime Himself Human Simplicity War
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
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
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
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
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

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