“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
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. — P.D. Ouspensky Bigger Copy Share Image
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. — P.D. Ouspensky Connected Copy Share Image
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P.D. Ouspensky Awake 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 Essentials 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
It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. — P.D. Ouspensky Adversity Copy Share Image
“Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things happen, happen, happen, and we think… — P.D. Ouspensky Life Copy Share Image
“you do not realize that one has to learn to speak the truth. it seems to you that it is enough to… — P.D. Ouspensky Long time 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 Attainment Copy Share Image
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep. — P.D. Ouspensky Awakening 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 Circumstances 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
“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
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 Aspect 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 Concepts 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 Able Copy Share Image
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control… — P.D. Ouspensky Capable Copy Share Image
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him.… — P.D. Ouspensky Bounds Copy Share Image
“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions! A. This is one of… — P.D. Ouspensky Emotions Copy Share Image
“If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at… — P.D. Ouspensky Life Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a… — P.D. Ouspensky Disappear 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 Awful Copy Share Image
