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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFBelieve nothing, not even yourself.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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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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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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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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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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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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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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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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