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

G. I. Gurdjieff

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
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
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Life Myself Reality
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
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
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Future Life Reap Responsibility
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
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Debt Help Life Mathematics Nature
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
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Cosmic Law Pay Satisfaction
Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Blood Common Goal Strong
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Knowledge Necessary
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Awake Place Sleep System Yourself

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