Inviting the Work with Joy and Will

For the Work to enter, you must invite it and agree with it and will it, and treat it internally with the highest consideration and the greatest courtesy and with true delight. I have said to you elsewhere that will is delight.

Do you suppose that when the man in one of the parables about the Kingdom of Heaven (which is the Conscious Circle of Humanity) who found a treasure in the field, sold all he had and bought the field, do you imagine that he did not feel delight? Why, it is expressly said in the text "in his joy he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field."

Maurice Nicoll, "Will and Delight” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1497)