The Work Is Daily Bread

Remember that you have to do this Work fresh every day. Every day it is necessary to make yourself conscious of the Work internally, to be aware of it, to think of it, to try to remember any small aim you have and to try to get what the day will teach. You will remember that the Children of Israel were fed by manna from heaven and were told not to keep it to the next day, so do not think that because you understood something yesterday you will always remember it. Everything is changing but the Work remains the same.

Once you have a point in the Work—and that means roughly a small center of gravity—you will then know it presents itself differently every day like a wheel of turning meaning. Do not think that because you understood something last week it will remain always the same. On the contrary, all understanding grows because the Work is life and life must grow. So you will find that your understanding keeps on changing as the life of the Work grows in you, and yet it is always the same thing.

Maurice Nicoll, “A Note on Personal Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 514)