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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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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Fake Himself Lying Man Order Truth Understand
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Body Consciousness Love Response Type
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Consist Growth Habit Man
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
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
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Knowledge Necessary
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
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
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

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