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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Attainment Capability Man
Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
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Impression Learning Man Memory Personal Reflection Trace
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
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.
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Death Moments Motivational Realize Strong Work Yourself
That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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Bad Easy Inner Life
All who have come to me must have enema each day.
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Each Day Myself
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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Awake Order Persistent Possible Seek Struggle Time Work
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
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
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
Never think of results, just do!
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Result Thinking Work
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 can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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Right Serve Tea Yourself
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
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Consciousness Degree Density Vibration
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
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
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Learning Teaching Yourself
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
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
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Knowledge Seek Understand
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
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Cosmic Law Pay Satisfaction
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
Only super-efforts count.
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Count Efforts
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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Break Change Habit Machine Progress Result Struggle
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible

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