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Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
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
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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God Infinite Life Man Mercy Stupidity
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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Crowd Impossible Man Possible
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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Apart Ideas Willing
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
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
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
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
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
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
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
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

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

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