When the Master Knocks, Are You Awake?
Remember that Real Will or Master comes down from a higher level and cannot reach the ordinary so-called waking state of consciousness. Something must be awake in one to have any contact and that means that there must be some state of Self- Remembering present. After a time one can begin to tell when one is asleep inside—i.e. when there is no kind of Self-Remembering taking place.
It is said sometimes when you are in difficulties that the Work will find a way for you. Yes, this is so, but only when you feel the Work and value it. It must be in you, not merely something outside you. When you have affection for something, when you value something, it is in you. The Master can speak through the Work, and the Work can speak to us, but the Master cannot speak to us directly.
Maurice Nicoll, “Levels of Consciousness" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 500)