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G. I. Gurdjieff

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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Circle Humanity Important Lose Move Past Progress
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
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
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
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
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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People Stop Togetherness War Way
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Development God Hide Nature Potential Way
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Compensation Law Thorn World
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Cosmic Law Pay Satisfaction
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself

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