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"We can have two contradictory states in us - a state of 'I must' and a state of 'I cannot'. If we lose one of these then some compromise arises. We either do what we can, or we do something different and pretend it is what we must do. But if we don't compromise then this can bring us to that moment when something else emerges that is neither affirming that we must, nor denying that we can. It is just the action. The action appears. The big thing for us is when this comes to us about Work. We realise that we must and that we cannot. Then from nowhere there comes something else and we find that things have happened to us that we cannot understand. There are three phases. There is the phase of I cannot - I know, but I cannot. Then there is the phase when nothing of this sort is present at all. Then comes the phase when one says 'I can' and then it's all lost.

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There is another element in doing that has always to be remembered. We can't do unless there is an ideal or a pattern. This presents itself to us. You can have the memory of previous occasions when something similar didn't work. If something has failed for us and we haven't been paralysed by the failure, but on the contrary we remain sure that it can be done, then it brings us again to this 'I must, but I cannot' (even if you're not aware of it in that clear way). But in some cues the pattern itself has power. This is perhaps true in all cases, but in some cases the power of the pattern is the most important thing, as in certain exercises we do."

~ J.G. Bennett, 'The Image of God in Work: Talks at Sherborne House 1973-4' (The Collected Works of J.G. Bennett Book 33)

[Ian Sanders]

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