Maurice Nicoll: The doctrine of 'I's is the most important part of the psychological teaching of this Work. Unless a person begins to see that he is not one he can never be otherwise than completely identified with himself. Just think what this means. I repeat that unless a person begins to see that he is not one but many different 'I's he cannot be otherwise than completely identified with himself in everything that he does and thinks and feels. Now such a man cannot evolve. Being fixed to himself as he is, he cannot separate himself from himself. When you speak to a man like this he is very surprised when he is told to observe himself and he is quite incapable of understanding what it means. Read more
Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.