Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
G. I. GURDJIEFFWithout struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
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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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All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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