People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep. — P.D. Ouspensky Asleep Copy Share Image
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P.D. Ouspensky Asleep Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. — P.D. Ouspensky Barriers Copy Share Image
Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want. — P.D. Ouspensky Desire Copy Share Image
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“I saw clearly that something could be found there which had long since ceased to exist in Europe and I considered that… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life… — P.D. Ouspensky Existence Copy Share Image
“There is practically no negative emotion which you cannot enjoy, and that is the most difficult thing to realize. Really some people… — P.D. Ouspensky Negative emotions Copy Share Image
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how… — P.D. Ouspensky Attitude Copy Share Image
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what… — P.D. Ouspensky Analysis 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 About yourself Copy Share Image
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will… — P.D. Ouspensky Change Copy Share Image
Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no… — 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… — P.D. Ouspensky Conclusion Copy Share Image
Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe;… — P.D. Ouspensky Crime 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
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe,… — 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
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Country Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since… — P.D. Ouspensky Ancestor Copy Share Image
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the… — P.D. Ouspensky Comparison Copy Share Image
Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the… — P.D. Ouspensky Change Copy Share Image
I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way… — P.D. Ouspensky Action Copy Share Image
Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the… — 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
“Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself? A. No, it is more difficult. If you become… — P.D. Ouspensky Metaphysics Copy Share Image
