Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. P.D. Ouspensky More Quotes by P.D. Ouspensky More Quotes From P.D. Ouspensky Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it. P.D. Ouspensky pennies feelings thinking Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing P.D. Ouspensky too-much limits trying The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm. P.D. Ouspensky law numbers country Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey. P.D. Ouspensky monkeys inheritance people I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying. P.D. Ouspensky numbers lying people 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 is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas. P.D. Ouspensky essence world ideas To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness. P.D. Ouspensky inspirational mean thinking One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones. P.D. Ouspensky acquire opinion views Art is the communication of ecstasy. P.D. Ouspensky ecstasy communication art 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 thinking Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. P.D. Ouspensky bigger understanding problem Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. P.D. Ouspensky effort change ideas A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. P.D. Ouspensky contradicting religion 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 given use men Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole. P.D. Ouspensky powerful taken men In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions. P.D. Ouspensky creativity nature love-is There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream. P.D. Ouspensky possibility dream remember 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 do one thing and get the result that could only come from another P.D. Ouspensky want mean way Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science. P.D. Ouspensky psychology essentials sometimes We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them. P.D. Ouspensky helping negative thinking
