The Marvel of Unknowing

If a person really felt he or she knew nothing, could he or she ever object to anything? But are not all of you continually objecting, finding fault, judging people, condemning people, and so on?

How marvellous it is when a person begins to unknow a little and not always know! How marvellous it is when a man or woman changes, becomes softer, quieter. How marvellous not to have to be what you think you are, to keep up this False Personality, this pseudo self! How extraordinary it is to move towards Real I, which is only moved towards by actual separation from false things in yourself, one by one.

Maurice Nicoll, "Unknowing” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1758-9)