Passive Personality, Active Being

Now in order to isolate ourselves from life, apart from what has been said above, there are three great Work-practices that aid in this. The first is Self-Remembering, the second is non-identifying, and the third is non-considering in the sense of not making accounts against others.

If you practise Self-Remembering, non-identifying and not making accounts against others, you will begin to isolate yourself from all the aspects of the Third Force of life. As a result you begin to pass under the new Third Force of the Work. This latter Third Force can change you because it will gradually make Personality more passive. But if you are always under the Third Force of life exclusively you cannot change. Your level of Being will always remain the same and you will always attract the same kind of experiences.

Maurice Nicoll, “A Further Note on Changing Our Level of Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 746)