To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“It is a question of finding reasons, of thinking rightly, because expression of negative emotion is always based on some kind of… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Our thought has acquired many bad habits, and one of them is thinking without purpose. Our thinking has become automatic; we are… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
“Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
“The most important factor in every function is: ‘Is it under our control or not?’ So when imagination is under our control we do… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share
