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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Patience is the mother of will.
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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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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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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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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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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Never think of results, just do!
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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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.
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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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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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Only super-efforts count.
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