Life Will Eat You: Unless the Work Lives in You

You can bring the atmosphere of the Work into everything that you do. But if you identify with everything and make inner accounts, this will be impossible. Life will eat you. Taking things from the Work point of view can alter your Being.

Bring the Work into what you do. This must not of course be done heavily but with a certain lightness of touch that you will gradually find out about for yourself. You must not show too much that you are working.

Maurice Nicoll, “Further Commentary on Making Work Effort" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 769)