149.     I suspect that this is from Gurdjieff: “You must remember here a phrase once used in the Work—”No effort—no work: no work—no awakening: no awakening—death.”” (1643-4, 8 November 1952, […]

134.     “Identifying” said G., “is the greatest enemy that we have to overcome. It is through being always identified that we are kept asleep and therefore have to live in […]

121.     “When I was at the Institute in France I used to be told at about six o’clock in the morning when I was on a certain job that I […]

In the Maurice Nicoll Papers, Yale University Library, MS 1348, series 1, Box 3, folder 13 are 188 pages of his science study (at least several pages are missing, and […]

Number 120, at the end, is of the greatest practical value. All of these are worthwhile, but that one is significant on several levels. 113.     “Gurdjieff, when once asked if […]

97.       “He cannot see that he is a machine and that everything he does the machine is doing and that he ascribes to himself a thousand and one things that […]

90.       This ties in with #89, and like that, is only possibly from Gurdjieff: “The Work says: “Try to observe your songs”. That is all it says.” (1107, 10 January […]

82(a). “(Man) remains, to use a phrase of the Work, an unfinished house.” (1020, 19 April 1947, 257th commentary) This is probably from Gurdjieff. It is interesting because we are […]

79. There is an enigmatic statement which may be from Gurdjieff. In context, Nicoll says “In this space, in this psychological or spiritual world, there are definite places where it […]