The Art of Being Ordinary

You must have already got some idea of what it means to be "all things to all people". You must be able to eat and drink and joke and listen and talk without any trace of the Work being behind you. You may have an opportunity to say something, and you may not. That doesn't matter.

A person in the Fourth Way of Work must be able to be quite ordinary in life. There must be no kind of superiority, no hinting, no persuasion, no dark remarks. But if you work on yourself, when the other person is difficult, that will make the other person aware that you are different.

Maurice Nicoll, "Internal Considering and External Considering VI” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 27)