Willing What Is: The Secret of Conscious Love

Instead of referring everything to the idea of fairness and justice it is far better to will what you have to do in everything and try to awaken from your negative emotions. That will give you freedom and inner peace. Kicking against the pricks will make you more negative and therefore less and less free.

There are two ways of taking the events of life. One is that you do not identify with them; the other is to will them. Sometimes we have to use one method, but sometimes to use the other, or both. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

Maurice Nicoll, "Two Ways of Meeting Events” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1316)