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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

G. I. Gurdjieff

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
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
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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
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
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
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
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
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
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

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