The Third Force Within: Thinking Beyond Opposites

It is necessary for us to have the opposites in us before we can think for ourselves and with individual thinking through the power of the Work something comes that unites the opposites.

Have any of you ever had a thought of your own quite independently of what your acquired psychology tends to make you think ? If you notice where a new thought comes from, it is never from either one side or the other of the opposites. It comes in between as the reconciling force.

Maurice Nicoll, “On Thinking for Oneself" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1374)