Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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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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Better to die than live in sleep.
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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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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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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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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