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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
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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Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Fake Himself Lying Man Order Truth Understand
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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Awake Order Persistent Possible Seek Struggle Time Work
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Freedom Function Government Himself Knowledge Slave Understand Work
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Best Learning Mindset Realize Work Yourself
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.
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Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

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