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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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.
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Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Achievement Chance Himself Sick
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
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Compensation Law Thorn World
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
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 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
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
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
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible

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