'It is important to keep the Work alive in oneself, to hear its ideas over and over, to think of them, and try to act from them. If it dies out in one through the demands and pressure of life, it may be difficult to awaken it again.
To habitually disagree is to use only the negative part of the center. It is to be intellectually in reverse, the wrong use of a center. But a person who thinks only on the side of affirmation will never grasp the system either. It will never become 'real' to him, for he will not have passed through any temptations in regard to it or struggled and worked it out for himself by degrees.'
-- Maurice Nicoll, from Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol 1.
