Working with Delight

It is only through some kind of delight, some feeling of joy or pleasure or some genuine affection or desire, that you can work and bring about any change of being in yourself.

To do a thing willingly from a delight in doing it, will effect a change in you. And when you begin to take up your own "cross"—that is, the burden of some difficult thing in yourself that you have at last come to observe—and do it in such a spirit, then you will get results.

But if you do it heavily, out of the conviction of sin, nothing will ever come out of it.

Maurice Nicoll, "A Note on How to Work on Oneself” in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1743)