Dictation of commandments by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff . Ground your attention on yourself. Be conscious at every moment of what you are thinking , sending feeling , desiring , and doing. Always finish what you have begun. Whatever you are doing , do it as well as possible . Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time . Develop your generosity - but secretly. . Treat everyone as if he or she was a close relative . Organize what you have disorganized . Learn to receive and give thanks for every gift . Stop defining yourself . Do not lie or steal for you lie to your self and steal from yourself . Help your neighbor , but not to make him dependent . Do not encourage others to imitate you . Make work plans and accomplish them . Do not take up too much space . Make no useless movements or sounds . If you lack faith , pretend to have it. Do not allow yourself to become impressed by strong personalities . Do not regard anyone or anything as your personal possessions . Share Farley . Do not seduce . Sleep and eat only as much as necessary . Do not speak of your personal problems Do not express judgement or criticism when you are ignorant of most of the factors involved . Do not establish useless friendships . Do not follow fashions . Do not sell yourself . Respect contracts you have signed . Be on time . Never envy the luck and success of others. Dont say no more than necessary . Dont think of the profit your work will engender . Never threaten anyone . Keep your promises . In any discussion , put yourself in the others place . Admit that someone else can be superior to you . Do not eliminate , but trans mutate . Conquer your fears for each of them represents a camouflaged desire . Help others to help themselves . Conquer your aversions and come closer to those who inspire rejection in you . Do not react to what others say about you wether praise or blame . Transform your pride into dignity . Transform your anger into creativity . Transform your greed into respect for beauty . Transform your hate your hate into charity . Neither praise or insult yourself . Regard what does not belong to you as if it did belong to you . Do not proselytize your work or ideas . Do not try to make others feel for you emotions such as pitty, admiration , sympathy or complicity . Do not try to distinguish yourself by your appearance. Never contradict ; instead be silent . Do not contract debts ; acquire and pay immediately . If you offend someone , ask his or her pardon ; if you have offended someone publicly , apologize publicly . When you realize you have said something that is mistaken , do not persist in error through pride ; instead immediately retract it . Never defend your old ideas simply because you are the one who expressed them. Do not keep useless objects . Justify yourself to no one, and keep own counsel . Never define yourself by what you posses . Never speak of yourself without considering that you might change . Accept that nothing belongs to you . When someone asks your opinion about something or someone speak only of his or her qualities . When you become Ill, regard your illness as your teacher not as something to be hated . Look directly and dont hide yourself . Wherever you love , always find a space that you devote to the sacred . When you perform service , make your effort inconspicuous . If you decide to work to help others , do it with pleasure . If you are hesitating between doing something and not doing , take the risk of doing . 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. When someone is speaking to an interested audience , do not contradict that person and steal his or her audience . Live on money you have earned . Never brag about amorous adventures. Never glorify your weakness. Never visit someone only to pass the time . Obtain things in order to share them. If you are meditating and the devil appears ,make the devil meditate too .
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