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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
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
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
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
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
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
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
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.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
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
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
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
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
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 first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
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

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