The Joy that Transforms Being

It is only through some kind of delight, some feeling of joy or pleasure or some genuine affection or desire, that you can work and bring about any change of being in yourself. Fear, for example, will not act in this way.

You may have some knowledge of truth, but unless you value it, unless you feel some delight in it, it cannot affect you. It cannot act on you, for you unite with truth only through your love, as it were, and in this way your being is changed.

Maurice Nicoll, “Note on How to Work on Oneself" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1743)