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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
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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Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
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
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
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
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Consciousness Evolution Himself Man Willing
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching 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
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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God Infinite Life Man Mercy Stupidity
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
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
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Compassionate Death Love Realize True Yourself
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
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
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
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
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
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
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
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

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