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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
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
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
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
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
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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Fake Himself Lying Man Order Truth Understand
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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Circle Humanity Important Lose Move Past Progress
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
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
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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Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself

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