From Hearing to Doing: The Second Note of the Work

To do what the Work teaches is one thing: to hear what it says is another. The second note in the Work-Octave of personal development is, we are told, to apply what the Work teaches to ourselves.

This is not understood save after long contact with the ideas and a real struggle about the whole matter. The Work begins to fight with life in you.

Maurice Nicoll, “The Parable of Walking on Waters" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 879)