You Cannot Do: Realizing the Mechanicalness of Being

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Written By Bob Sabath

Our receptive side is greater than our doing side. We therefore find ourselves in the position in this Work of being able to see better than we can do. In certain situations we have flashes of understanding in which perhaps we see quite clearly what we should do and yet we find it impossible to do what we have seen.

There was a question: "Well, how can I do in the Work-sense?" The answer is that you cannot do as you are in a Work-sense. "Then, what am I to do?" "Realize that you cannot do. Realize the mechanicalness of your Being."

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on One’s Level of Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 846)

Bob Sabath
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