The Inner Stop: Ending Mechanical Dislike

We have to make effort in regard to stopping internally mechanical disliking and it was also said that this is not so difficult to do, once one can notice it at work by observation. One says "Stop" to it. One makes "inner stop" in regard to it, without arguing or self-justifying. Or, to put it another way, one stops inner talking about it and practises inner silence.

It was then said that we have next to begin to like what we dislike and it was added that this leads to the right feeling of nothingness. For the Work cannot reach us if we are full of self-feeling, full of our importance, our egotism, our sense of being right.

We are told that to like what we dislike is the quickest path to giving up one's suffering. We are told that our suffering is the only thing we can sacrifice. The Work says we must sacrifice our suffering.

Maurice Nicoll, "Efforts Against Certain ‘I’s” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 976)