Surrendering the Liar Within

When you see you are in the wrong—that is, when you get a little behind False Personality with all its Vanities and Prides—you take force backwards or interiorly into yourself and these moments of confession or separation from what is false will cause Essence to grow because you give it energy that would otherwise have gone into self-justifying.

This inner confession, this giving way, this surrender of something that has always been a nuisance, this giving up of what you have always known to be a liar in you, is one of the most blessed experiences that you can have in this Work.

Many aspects of oneself complicate life, and that all I have to do is to surrender my own authority and give up this noise and uproar and feeling I am not properly treated. I have to make myself passive and surrender and admit. Now such a state means that you are moving towards the internal part of you which leads to Essence and Real I.

Maurice Nicoll, “Reversal" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1378)