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

G. I. Gurdjieff

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Body Consciousness Love Response Type
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
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
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Blood Common Goal Strong
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
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
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
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
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

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