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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

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
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
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching 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
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
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Consist Growth Habit Man
To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom
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
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
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Beginning Oneself Possible
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
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love

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