According to Osho, Gurdjieff called the spiritual search “the work”: a rigorous, sober, transformative labor meant to ‘crystallize’ one’s being, because everything else is futile. He framed it as ‘a terror to behold, a joy to experience’—the disciplined process that closes the secret gap between all and nothing, forging an indivisible, enduring self.
It’s a serious, disciplined effort to make your inner self solid and real, scary at times but leading to deep joy and wholeness.