The Fresh Effort of the Work: A Daily Discipline

Remember that you have to do this Work fresh every day. Every day it is necessary to make yourself conscious of the Work internally, to be aware of it, to think of it, to try to remember any small aim you have and to try to get what the day will teach.

Everything is changing but the Work remains the same. Once you have a point in the Work—and that means roughly a small center of gravity—you will then know it presents itself differently every day like a wheel of turning meaning.

So you will find that your understanding keeps on changing as the life of the Work grows in you, and yet it is always the same thing. When you begin to get force from the Work through your evaluation of it you must remember that it requires care.

Maurice Nicoll, “A Note on Personal Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 514)