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There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Body Consciousness Love Response Type
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
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
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
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
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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Consciousness General Himself Known Man See State
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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Death Moments Motivational Realize Strong Work Yourself
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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Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom
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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People Stop Togetherness War Way
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
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself

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