You Can Think Differently

After a time in the Work you will begin to get tired of your customary thoughts—i.e. the thoughts that you ordinarily go with every day—but you must remember that you can think in a new way about everything, and here you must begin by including yourself.

It is a very marvellous experience to realize that you can think differently both about other people and about yourself, and about your past and present life. The trouble is that we simply accept our thoughts and believe that they are quite right and that they are the only possible thoughts that we can have. Why, you can think differently in a million ways.

Maurice Nicoll, “The Meaning of Force in the Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 714)