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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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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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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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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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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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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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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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Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave

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