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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Attainment Capability Man
Only super-efforts count.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Count Efforts
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Future Life Reap Responsibility
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Beginning Born Death End Time
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Consist Growth Habit Man
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Knowledge Seek Understand
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Crowd Impossible Man Possible
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
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.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Necessary Order Unknown Wisdom

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

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