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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Blood Common Goal Strong
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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 want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
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
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
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
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
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 help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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Debt Help Life Mathematics Nature
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself 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

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