Second Force Becomes the Way: Learning to Work With Resistance

If you deal cleverly with this 2nd force it will give you results and, instead of being simply a blind, opposing force, will become gradually what you want. You do not instantly become negative when opposed. You try this way and that, and gradually this formidable opposition yields and becomes what you want—or, let us say, rather, what is possible in your wanting.

Then active force as what you want by modifying itself attains through a right neutralizing force its aim. That is, Will, passing through patience as 3rd force, attains what it wants.

Maurice Nicoll, “Neutralizing Force —Triads" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 1017)