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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

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Awake Place Sleep System Yourself
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
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Cosmic Law Pay Satisfaction
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability 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
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
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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Awake Order Persistent Possible Seek Struggle Time Work
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
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World

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