Facing Your Own Disbelief

Now if you fundamentally disbelieve this Work and the ideas in the Gospels, but do not observe you do, you will be indignant with those who seem to disbelieve it. This is simply due to seeing what is really in you as if it were outside you in others. This is a common enough occurrence. It is necessary therefore to bring your own disbelief into your consciousness so that you can face it yourself.

It is better to do this because otherwise you will not be able to see the truth of anything the Work teaches for yourself, because you will be denying it inwardly all the time. But if you face your disbelief sincerely, you will be helped, if there is any willingness to believe.

Maurice Nicoll, “The Opening of the Inner Division of a Center" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1704)