Seeing Both Sides: The Gateway to the Third Force

When you live for a time in the consciousness of what you want, you will at the same time see more and more the Second Force that it gives rise to, so the more will you become conscious in two forces simultaneously.

You will see that you cannot do this or that because of that or this. Yes, but you will see why. By not identifying with either—and this we practically always do, which spoils the whole experience—you may catch a glimpse of the Third Force entering by magic that makes the First and Second Force come into a possible relationship, so that they are no longer felt as opposing forces, as a conflict of opposites.

This is finding a solution and you will notice that it has to do with Will.

Maurice Nicoll, “A Further Note on Personal Work: On Seeing Second Force in Oneself" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 518)