The Kingdom of God is within you
From “Psychological Commentaries on the teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky”, by Maurice Nicoll, M.D. (1884-1953) "In the Gospels it is said: “The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo, there! For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.” It is not something outside that if you would only join you would be liberated. When it is said in the Gospels that “the Kingdom of God is within you”, by this is meant a state in which the hypnotism of life no longer acts on us and in which we are invested with the influence of ideas coming from quite a different source. (Christ Consciousness) Now let us take one of the ideas of The Work from which we are taught to observe ourselves and from which we must think and build up within ourselves a new point of view. There is the idea that “Man Cannot Do”. (This idea is inherent in the concept of “The Kingdom of God”.) Have you ever thought about this idea? Remember that an idea is comparable with a very