Can You Be the Work?

The link between the Work taught on the blackboard and your being is self-observation, without which you can never join the knowledge of the Work to your being and be it. Negative emotions are the greatest curse of life in yourself and others. Humanity is governed by them.

Observation and separation are necessary all your life. Yes, but can you BE the Work? In short, can you live the Work, not merely remember it? If you try to live it, it will feed you all your life.

Maurice Nicoll, “Knowledge and Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1404)