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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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
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
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
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 man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Consciousness Evolution Himself Man Willing
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Fantasy Man Philosophy Religion Thinking
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
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Animal Practice Sensitive
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
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
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
Better to die than live in sleep.
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Better Death Live Sleep
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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Best Learning Mindset Realize Work Yourself
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

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