The Greatest Force

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) - "Meeresstrand im Nebel."

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I often come back, for myself, to what Maurice Nicoll emphasises, that understanding is the greatest force we can create. And it is echoed implicitly everywhere one looks in the teaching of Gurdjieff.

For example, Nicoll says:

New understanding is the most powerful force we can create in the Work. It comes from new ideas.¹

And:

. . . there is no greater force we can create in ourselves than understanding. . . . anyone in contact with the Work must continually seek to increase his understanding of it. It is the parable of the talents over again. For otherwise the Work gets cold and begins to die.²