Real Will vs. Mechanical Mind

In making decisions in the Work the mind must be free from its bondage to mechanical attitudes. Otherwise you will make decisions always from your Personality, from what you have been taught as being right and wrong. This freeing of the mind only begins when you let the Work enter into your mind and so change your mind.

It is the Will that must make decisions, not the will of your mechanical mind. Will belongs to every center and every part of a center and, in fact, to every 'I'. If the Work and its ideas have not begun to change your mind you will always make decisions in terms of your own mind which judges things in a mechanical way according to what you have been brought up to think right and wrong.

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on Making Decisions in the Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 784)