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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

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
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
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Difficult Give Up Himself Pleasure Sacrifice Suffering
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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
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
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
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
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
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time

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