"No one, of course, understands"
Where is my source of meaning?
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Maurice Nicoll says, provocatively, in his first volume of Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky:
No one, of course, understands the work. We know a little about it. But few have applied it to their being. That is, the Work is not third force for us. Life is. Only in a vague way and at times and by means of another's help, is the work third force for anyone—that is, a neutralising force stronger than the neutralising force of life and the forms of imagination derived from life. It is very difficult to change and no change is possible as long as life and imagination are the source of meaning for you.1
What is the third force of Work as opposed to the third force of life? Can I delineate and distinguish these and verify the difference between them during, say, the course of an ordinary day?