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.
G. I. GURDJIEFFThe highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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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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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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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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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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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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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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Patience is the mother of will.
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Never think of results, just do!
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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