The Photograph: Seeing What Can No Longer Imprison You

These conscious self-observations are, as was said, not continuous observations. They are to be regarded as discrete, discontinuous events of a very special kind that ordinarily people rarely experience.

But the organization of all these snapshot observations, these discontinuous personal events, into a full-size photograph is not one's own work. We did not see the connections of our observations. But something in us did and finally presented us with the photograph. "This", it says, "is one aspect of your life that can no longer imprison you."

Maurice Nicoll, “The Work as a Special Form of Photography" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1600-1601)