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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
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Necessary Opportunity Remember Struggle Yourself
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
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
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Freedom Law Man Mechanic Possible
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
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
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Evolution God Greatness Story
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
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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God Infinite Life Man Mercy Stupidity
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
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Break Law Miracle Ourselves Representation
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
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
Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Chaos Evil Knowledge Love
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
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
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.
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Better Group Himself Organization Proper Simplicity Verify
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

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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