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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

G. I. Gurdjieff

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Animal Better Love Practice React Sensitive
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
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
What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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Known Less Need
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope 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
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.
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Book Ceremony Greatness Performance Reading Understand Value
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
You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
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Awake Place Sleep System Yourself
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
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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Remember Yourself
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Difficult Give Up Himself Pleasure Sacrifice Suffering

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