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My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
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
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
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
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
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
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
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
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Knowledge Necessary
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify 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

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