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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

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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
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
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Awake Place Sleep System Yourself
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
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
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
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
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Awake Beginning Man Realize Unknown
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Difficult Give Up Himself Pleasure Sacrifice Suffering
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave

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