Your Being Attracts Your Life

You must understand that every event is attracted by your being and this is phrased as: "Your being attracts your life." That means that your being attracts events that happen to you because life is simply events of different kinds and on different scales.

One of the magical instruments you can wield is to learn how not to identify with these events that constitute your life. But if you are a mechanical individual, you cannot do this because you are your life. You are the event. You do not observe how you take events. You do not realize you can react to them in a different way.

But once you begin to see this, you are no longer a mechanical individual. You begin to see that you can take life events in a new way, if you will work on yourself.

Maurice Nicoll, “Practical Application of Work Ideas to Your Life Now" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1342)