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Our development is like that of a butterfly. We must "die and be reborn" as the egg dies and becomes a caterpillar; a caterpillar dies and becomes a chrysalis; the chrysalis dies and then the butterfly is born. It is a long process and the butterfly lives only a day or two. But the cosmic purpose is fulfilled. It is the same for man, we must destroy our buffers. Children have none; therefore we must become as little children ...

G.I. Gurdjieff

 

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It is the struggle between that which decides to serve something greater than ourselves and that in us which wishes to take only for ourselves. It is the liberation of that egoism that is the second and deeper meaning of the saying "Die before you are death". The arising in man of that which can truly be called the Immortal Soul comes from this final struggle, when he sees in himself that which is  ready to surrender itself altogether to service to the higher and that in him which altogether repudiates this.

J.G. Bennett

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Let us look first at the meaning of prayer and its relation to silence. It has been said when you pray, you yourself must be silent. You yourself must be silent. Let the prayer speak. But to achieve silence - this is of all things the hardest and the most decisive.

Pierre Elliot

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