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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
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
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
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
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
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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 want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
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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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
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
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Achievement Chance Himself Sick
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking

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