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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 82 Commandments For Living
Attributed to G.I. Gurdjieff
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From The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jodorowsky attributes these sayings to the Russian mystic George Gurdjieff, as told to him by Gurdjieff’s daughter, Reyna d’Assia.
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- 1. Ground your attention on yourself. Be conscious at every moment of what you are thinking, sensing, feeling, desiring and doing.
- 2. Always finish what you have begun.
- 3. Whatever you are doing, do it as well as possible.
- 4. Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.
- 5. Develop your generosity – but secretly.
- 6. Treat everyone as if he or she was a close relative.
- 7. Organize what you have disorganized.
- 8. Learn to receive and give thanks for every gift.
- 9. Stop defining yourself.
- 10. Do not lie or steal, for you lie to yourself and steal from yourself.
- 11. Help your neighbor but do not make him dependent.
- 12. Do not encourage others to imitate you.
- 13. Make work plans and accomplish them.
- 14. Do not take up too much space.
- 15. Make no useless movements or sounds.
- 16. If you lack faith, pretend to have it.
- 17. Do not allow yourself to be impressed by strong personalities.
- 18. Do not regard anyone or anything as your possession.
- 19. Share fairly.
- 20. Do not seduce.
- 21. Sleep and eat only as much as necessary.
- 22. Do not speak of your problems.
- 23. Do not express judgement or criticism when you are ignorant of most of the factors involved.
- 24. Do not establish useless friendships.
- 25. Do not follow fashions.
- 26. Do not sell yourself.
- 27. Respect contracts you have signed.
- 28. Be on time.
- 29. Never envy the luck or success of anyone.
- 30. Say no more than necessary.
- 31. Do not think of the profits your work will engender.
- 32. Never threaten anyone.
- 33. Keep your promises.
- 34. In any discussion, put yourself in the other person's place.
- 35. Admit that someone else may be superior to you.
- 36. Do not eliminate but transmute.
- 37. Conquer your fears, for each of them represents a camouflaged desire.
- 38. Help others to help themselves.
- 39. Conquer your aversions and come closer to those who inspire rejection in you.
- 40. Do not react to what others say about you whether praise or blame.
- 41. Transform your pride into dignity.
- 42. Transform your anger into creativity.
- 43. Transform your greed into respect for beauty.
- 44. Transform your envy into admiration for the values of the other.
- 45. Transform your hate into charity.
- 46. Neither praise nor insult yourself.
- 47. Regard what does not belong to you as if it did belong to you.
- 48. Do not complain.
- 49. Develop your imagination.
- 50. Never give orders to gain the satisfaction of being obeyed.
- 51. Pay for services performed for you.
- 52. Do not proselytize your work or ideas.
- 53. Do not try to make others feel for you emotions such as pity, admiration, sympathy, or complicity.
- 54. Do not try to distinguish yourself by your appearance.
- 55. Never contradict; instead, be silent.
- 56. Do not contract debts; acquire and pay immediately.
- 57. If you offend someone, ask his or her pardon; if you have offended a person publicly, apologize publicly.
- 58. When you realize you have said something that is mistaken, do not persist in error through pride; instead, immediately retract it.
- 59. Never defend your old ideas simply because you are the one who expressed them.
- 60. Do not keep useless objects.
- 61. Do not adorn yourself with exotic ideas.
- 62. Do not have your photograph taken with famous people.
- 63. Justify yourself to no one and keep your own counsel.
- 64. Never define yourself by what you possess.
- 65. Never speak of yourself without considering that you might change.
- 66. Accept that nothing belongs to you.
- 67. When someone asks your opinion about something or someone, speak only of his or her qualities.
- 68. When you become ill, regard your illness as your teacher, not as something to be hated.
- 69. Look directly and do not hide yourself.
- 70. Do not forget your dead, but accord them a limited place and do not allow them to invade your life.
- 71. Wherever you live, always find a space that you devote to the sacred.
- 72. When you perform a service, make your effort inconspicuous.
- 73. If you decide to work to help others, do it with pleasure.
- 74. If you are hesitating between doing and not doing, take the risk of doing.
- 75. Do not try to be everything to your spouse; accept that there are things that you cannot give him or her but which others can.
- 76. When someone is speaking to an interested audience, do not contradict that person and steal his or her audience.
- 77. Live on money you have earned.
- 78. Never brag about amorous adventures.
- 79. Never glorify your weaknesses.
- 80. Never visit someone only to pass the time.
- 81. Obtain things in order to share them.
- 82. If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too.