Easter Every Day: The Daily Death of the Mechanical Self
Easter is not something that comes once a year but something that comes every day: the idea of non-identifying, or dying to some typical mechanical reaction, is a daily possibility, and if it is done in a spirit of a kind of gaiety, it will gradually result in energy being transformed daily and passing upwards to another level which after a time will become a distinct experience to you.
Are you making more energy or losing energy if you work on yourself? Everything you do mechanically tends to increase entropy and bring about eventually a sort of stalemate, a sort of equalization of everything. But every effort of work increases force, as you can see quite plainly in the Octave that starts from Self-Remembering, whereby higher energies are produced in us.
Maurice Nicoll, “An Easter Message" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 664)