aphorisms of mr. Gurdjieff

The aphorisms inscribed in a special script above the
walls of the Study House at the Prieure
1. Like what "it" does not like.
2. The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
3. The worse the conditions of life the more productive the
work, always provided you remember (the work.
4. Remember yourself always and everywhere.
5. Remember you come here having already understood the
necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself.
Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
6. Here we can only direct and create conditions, but not
help.
7. Know that this house can be useful only to those who have
recognized their nothingness and who believe in the possibility
of changing.
8. If you already know it is bad and do it, you commit a sin
difficult to redress.

9. The chief means of happiness in this life is the ability to
consider externally always, internally never.
10. Do not love art with your feelings.
11. A true sign of a good man is if he loves his father and
mother. __
12. Judge others by yourself and you will rarely be mistaken.
13. Only help him who is not an idler.
14. Respect every religion.
15. I love him who loves work.
16. We can only strive to be able to be Christians.
17. Don't judge a man by the tales' of others.
18. Consider what people think of you—not what they say.
19. Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of
the West—and then seek.
20. Only he who can take care of what belongs to others may
have his own.
21. Only conscious suffering has any sense.
22. It is better to be temporarily an egoist then never to be
just.
23. Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
24. By teaching others you will learn yourself.
25. Remember that here work is not for work's sake but is
only a means.
26. Only he can be just who is able to put himself in the position
of others.
27. If you have not by nature a critical mind your staying here
is useless.
28. He who has freed himself of the disease of "tomorrow" has
a chance to attain what he came here for.
29. Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none,
but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
30. Rest comes not from the quantity but from the quality of
sleep.