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

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Development God Hide Nature Potential Way
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Believe Verify Yourself
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
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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Consist Growth Habit Man
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible

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