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The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
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
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Conscious Crime Himself Human Simplicity War
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
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Arrival Devil Meditation Yourself
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
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
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
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand

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