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One Quotes by P D Ouspensky
- Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
- The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
- Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
- Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest…
- Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the…
- One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
- Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he…
- When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
- I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to…
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