All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity. — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
“When a man pities himself, he feels he is owed—like the dog. If you feel that you are owed, you will never begin truly… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
“So we have to work in the midst of life, surrounded by all the misfortunes of life, and eventually life becomes our teacher—that is to say, we have to practise non-identifying in the midst of the happenings of life; we have to practise self-remembering in the midst of affairs; and we have to notice and separate ourselves from our negative… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share
“will now have to divide certain centres into positive and negative divisions, first of all, and then fill in, here and there, at present only some of the subdivisions, giving approximate definitions of their functions. Let us begin with the Intellectual Centre. Note.—Only the Moving Part of the Intellectual Centre is in any detail charted in this diagram. Note here… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share
How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love. — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
“You will remember that every psychological or inner state finds some outer representation via the moving centre—that is, it is represented in some particular muscular movements or contractions, etc. You may have noticed that a state of worry is often reflected by a contracted wrinkling of the forehead or a twisting of the hands. States of joy never have this… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share
The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names in different writings. In the Gospels, it is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is at a higher level of a man. To reach it, a man must reach a higher level in himself. If… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share
Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost. — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
“Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
“Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
