Feeling the Work

There are so many layers of 'I's in us that do not wish to work or that make the Work merely a matter of memory— that is, they remember the ideas formatorily but do not feel them emotionally. We must value the ideas. We must feel them emotionally.

The Work is not something that you hear about from time to time but is something that must eventually be always with you, something that you eventually think about even more than your interests and problems in life. This takes time.

Maurice Nicoll, “Knowledge and Acknowledgement of the Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 765)