The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious. — P.D. Ouspensky Barriers Copy Share Image
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — 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
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
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep. — P.D. Ouspensky Asleep Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Character 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 Emotion 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night;… — 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 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 Blunders 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
“We always think our negative emotions are produced by the fault of other people or by the fault of circumstances. We always… — P.D. Ouspensky Negative emotions Copy Share Image
“The most important factor in every function is: ‘Is it under our control or not?’ So when imagination is under our control… — P.D. Ouspensky Creative thinking Copy Share Image
“You see, all our ordinary views of things are no good, they do not lead anywhere. It is necessary to think differently,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams. — P.D. Ouspensky Dream Copy Share Image
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. — P.D. Ouspensky Life Copy Share Image
It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. — P.D. Ouspensky Adversity Copy Share Image
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
