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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

G. I. Gurdjieff

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Known Less Need
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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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
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

Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Debt Help Life Mathematics Nature
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Each Day Myself
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave
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
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Learning Teaching Yourself
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Knowledge Seek Understand
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Believe Verify Yourself

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