finding for ourselves

John 14:23—KJV

23 ... If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

"If we love our Teachers, we will try and keep their words. But to do so, we must see what the Teacher is made of. We must feel instinctively that the Teacher gives us food.

I am sure you would not listen to me for two minutes if you did not think I gave you food—and this is the same for all Teachers. But to give food, we must receive food, and we can only do this in the same way as everyone else—by work on ourselves—by deeper and deeper work to discover ourselves. 

Then we can pass what we have gained onto others, so that they may benefit by our finding and may go forth and find for themselves. Because this is what really teaches us—finding for ourselves—work upon ourselves."

—A Point in the Work: A Continuation of the work of G.I. Gurdjieff. Ouspensky, and Maurice Nicoll—anonymous