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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
Life is real only then, when “I am”.
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Life Myself Reality
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
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
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
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Best Learning Mindset Realize Work Yourself
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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Compassionate Death Love Realize True Yourself
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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Different Man Possible Quite Realize
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
He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Achievement Chance Himself Sick

Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

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