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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
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
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Best Learning Mindset Realize Work Yourself
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
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
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
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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Death Moments Motivational Realize Strong Work Yourself
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
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
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
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Circle Humanity Important Lose Move Past Progress
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing

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