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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
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Believe Yourself
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
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
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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Beginning Born Death End Time
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
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
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
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
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
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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Consciousness Emotional Faith Fools Freedom Slave

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