The Work Will Find a Way

There are three lines of Work: (1) work on oneself, (2) work in regard to relationship to other people in the Work, and (3) finally work that helps the Work in general. The first two lines are really all to do with conscious relationship, which, as I said, is based on mutual understanding through the study of a system such as this Work which enables you to speak to one another in the same language and not in terms of Babel.

Conscious relationship is a very wonderful thing, however imperfectly it is carried out by us at present. When two people are trying to make relationship through a common understanding of the Work it will be quite certain that they will find the right way both to behave and act towards one another. In other words, the Work will show them what to do. There is a phrase, sometimes used: "The Work will find a way"—but this applies only to those who work on themselves.

Maurice Nicoll, "A Note on Relationship" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 1056)