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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
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Compensation Law Thorn World
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
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Body Consciousness Love Response Type
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Blessing Grief Himself Soul
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
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
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
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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Consciousness General Himself Known Man See State
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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

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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