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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Compassionate Death Love Realize True Yourself
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
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
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
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
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
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 degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Compensation Law Thorn World
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Cosmic Law Pay Satisfaction

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