Before They Strike: Observing Negative Emotions and Crafting Conscious Aim

Remember in regard to making aim about negative emotions that emotions are much quicker than time. You may not be able to check them at first, but you can remember them afterwards and realize what has happened. This makes it possible to know them beforehand.

Aim must be made consciously, with insight, after long observation, in view of realizing what is putting you to sleep and what helps you to keep awake.

Maurice Nicoll, “Personal Aim” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 176)