Nothing Pseudo Has Any Place in the Work

Now I wish to talk rather seriously to all of you. First, everything pseudo, everything pretended, everything false, is of no use in the Work. To reach anywhere, to get anything, you must be sincere with yourself. You must have inner sincerity and that means that at least you must be able to detect by self-observation when you are not genuine, as far as you can at your level.

When you try to make "Will" from an insincere basis—that is, insincere for oneself at one's present level—you will not touch Essence, and so not Real 'I', which is close to Essence.

Maurice Nicoll, “Continuation on Commentary of Real Will" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 505)