“You see, all our ordinary views of things are no good, they do not lead anywhere. It is necessary to think differently, and this means to see things we do not see now, and not to see things we see… — 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 the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged… — 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
