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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
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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Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
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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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Freedom Function Government Himself Knowledge Slave Understand Work
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Blood Common Goal Strong
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
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Achievement Chance Himself Sick
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Consciousness Evolution Himself Man Willing

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