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To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

G. I. Gurdjieff

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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Death Moments Motivational Realize Strong Work Yourself
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
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
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
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
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

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