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
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
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. — P.D. Ouspensky Adversity Copy Share Image
One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. — P.D. Ouspensky Inspirational Copy Share Image
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know. — P.D. Ouspensky Adversity 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
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. — 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
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not… — P.D. Ouspensky Consciousness 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 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 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
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
What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to… — P.D. Ouspensky Best way Copy Share Image
“they are generally based on some kind of weakness, because at the basis of negative emotions there generally lies a kind of… — P.D. Ouspensky Anger 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
“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 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 Bad habit 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep. — P.D. Ouspensky Asleep 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
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
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
