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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
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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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
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
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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God Infinite Life Man Mercy Stupidity
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
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
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
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
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation

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