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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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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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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
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By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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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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