Seeing Life from the Work

The first object of the Work is to make you think in a new way—to change your mind. As I said recently, you cannot do this if you persist in thinking about the Work from life—that is, with your outer mind. You must begin by thinking about life from the Work.

When you receive the Work inwardly, it begins to open the inner mind, for it is designed to do so. You then begin to see life from what the Work says about it. You see it quite differently from the way you did when you viewed it from your outer mind.

Maurice Nicoll, “Outer and Inner" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1672)