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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
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
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.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
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
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
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
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
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
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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Different Man Possible Quite Realize
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
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

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