Forming a New Will Through the Work

Now when the Work begins to build itself up in you—which it will do if you do not internally deny it or if you do not put little value on it— a new point of will begins also and so a new point of being. It resists the stream of constant changing. As long as we follow each one of our passing desires—as long as we are slaves to every passing mood, we cannot form a new will.

So you must begin to sacrifice some of these passing desires and moods to the Will of the Work, for in order to have Will you must give up will. So before you fly into a rage or identify with a painful mood, it is of considerable use to think of what the Work would will you to do.

One's level of being is far lower than it should be and that is why you will as you do. For a low level of willing and a low level of being interlock and inter-depend.

Maurice Nicoll, “Notes on Will, Being and Structure" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1495)