With thorns in the inner ...

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
 G. I. Gurdjieff

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Patience is the mother of will.
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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.
 G. I. Gurdjieff
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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.
 G. I. Gurdjieff
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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