Bigger Quote by P.D. Ouspensky

“Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.”

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Art is the communication of ecstasy.

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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

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To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not…

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In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity…

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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try…

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“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…

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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

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Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

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Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is…

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