Force Through New Thinking

Not realizing that some center or part of a center can have force, we tend to feel exhausted when we need not be exhausted, the reason being that we live in a kind of rigid pattern of life and always do the same thing over and over again—that is, we live in very small parts. At that time Mr. Ouspensky was talking a great deal about thinking differently.

He said that supposing you begin to think differently you will at once get force because your thinking will change from one part of the Intellectual Center to another part. But most people do not understand what it means to think differently from the way they are always thinking.

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