The Invisible Work: Internal Silence and Presence

You must have a genuine matured conscious aim that starts in the light of the Work and to which you hold on every time you remember yourself and every time you think of what you are doing practically in this Work. Only then will the Work help you.

A person in this Work, surrounded by people in life who have no magnetic center, must behave in an ordinary way—you must be silent, not in an obvious or intriguing way, but really internally silent, so that others notice nothing unusual. This will be part of your work. Your other work will consist in not reacting mechanically as you always did.

Maurice Nicoll, "Internal Cpnsidering and External Considering: VI” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 272 )