Beyond the Facade: The Path to Real Connection

The object of this Work is to become more conscious. If you become more conscious of yourself and stand behind the facade of your False Personality and can acknowledge that it is a put-up job of your own invention, if you can get behind False Personality, you will be able to get into contact with people in a way that is impossible otherwise.

So the first step in increase of consciousness is to see through yourself and acknowledge what you see. What is the result? Instantly other people who are keeping up their facade of False Personality will feel more at ease with you.

Maurice Nicoll, "On Seeing People Less Personally” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1345)