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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Knowledge Necessary
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify 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
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
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
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
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Conscious Crime Himself Human Simplicity War
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
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World

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