Fighting With God: How Opposition Fuels Transformation

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Written By Bob Sabath

Second Force is in the nature of things, and is not an evil god but an aspect of God in which you have to fight with Him in order to develop. Perhaps you will understand that without Second Force no one could grow internally.

When we struggle with our mechanicalness and try to behave more consciously are we struggling with Second Force in us? How can we expect, if we are created as self-developing beings, that we could develop if everything went as we wanted it to go ?

Maurice Nicoll, “Note on Second Force" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1464)

Bob Sabath
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