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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Consciousness Evolution Himself Man Willing
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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Consist Growth Habit Man
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
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
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
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
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
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Awake Order Persistent Possible Seek Struggle Time Work

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