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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

G. I. Gurdjieff

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
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
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Future Life Reap Responsibility
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Believe Verify Yourself
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Attainment Beginning Sacrifice Suffering Time
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Consciousness General Himself Known Man See State
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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Knowledge Necessary
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Bad Easy Inner Life
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Known Less Need
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

God High Powerful World

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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