Stop Objecting, Start Willing: The Work of Inner Transformation

So it is necessary to observe internal considering and notice what it is and try to control it. Notice your inner talking. Notice what obsesses your thoughts. Taste it and see whether it is negative. Try to struggle with it. Hate it. Try to wake up and do what you have to do from yourself willingly. Only one person can live your life and that is yourself.

If you object to everything you will internally consider all day. You will make internal accounts against everyone. But if you will the existence of someone you object to, everything will change—miraculously. If you will what happens to you, you will gain force. If you object to what happens to you, you will lose force. This Work is about how to gain force.

Maurice Nicoll, “Internal Considering and Inner Talking” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 1118)