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Life is real only then, when “I am”.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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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Difficult Give Up Himself Pleasure Sacrifice Suffering
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Development God Hide Nature Potential Way
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
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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Attainment Beginning Sacrifice Suffering Time
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
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
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
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
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
Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
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
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Awake Beginning Man Realize Unknown

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