Making Personality Passive

The idea that Personality has to be made passive throughout life, and little by little, before inner development can reach any perfection, is one of the Great Ideas taught by the Work. Now unless your mind catches some of the Great Ideas of the Work you will not ever really comprehend what it is all about.

It is not much good catching at little things and giving them no background. That will not expand the mind. You will remain in small details and little formatory arguments.

Maurice Nicoll, “On Making Personality Passive" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1666)