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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

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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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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.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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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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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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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.
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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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