Mercy Lies in the Middle: Reconciling the Opposites Within

The feeling of I can be squandered in infinite ways. We have to draw the feeling of I out of the opposites. That means one attempts to withdraw the feeling of I from the feeling that one is good or the feeling that one is bad.

There is a third thing between the opposites called variously Neutralizing Force, Connecting Force, Harmonizing Force, Relating Force, Reconciling Force, or simply Third Force. To become conscious in Third Force is mercy and release. But it will remain impossible if you secretly feel how excellent you are or how blameworthy you are.

Maurice Nicoll, “Continuation on the Feeling of I" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1655-6)