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Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Body Consciousness Disease Feeling Hope Slave Strength
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Attainment Beginning Sacrifice Suffering Time
To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
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
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
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
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Different Man Possible Quite Realize
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
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
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
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
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

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

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