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The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46

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“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions! A. This is one of the worst illusions we have. We think that negative emotions are produced by circumstances, whereas all negative emotions are in us, inside us. This is a very important point. We always think our negative emotions are produced by the fault of other people or by the fault of circumstances. We always think that. Our negative emotions are in ourselves and are produced by ourselves. There is absolutely not a single unavoidable reason why somebody else's action or some circumstance should produce a negative emotion in me. It is only my weakness. No negative emotion can be produced by external causes if we do not want it. We have negative emotions because we permit them, justify them, explain them by external causes, and in this way we do not struggle with them.”

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“If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.”

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“„Mi mislimo da smo ovakvi kakvi smo. Na nesreću, mi nismo takvi kakvi smo, već takvi kakvi smo postali: mi smo neprirodna bića. Mi suviše spavamo, suviše lažemo, suviše živimo u fantaziji, suviše se identifikujemo. Mi mislimo da imamo posla sa pravim bićem, ali u stvarnosti imamo posla sa imaginarnim bićem. Gotovo sve što znamo o sebi je imaginarno. Ispod tih naslaga čovek je sasvim drugačiji. Mi imamo mnoštvo imaginarnih stvari koje moramo odbaciti pre nego što stignemo do pravih stvari. Sve dok živimo u imaginarnim stvarima, ne možemo da shvatimo vrednost pravih; a samo kad u sebi dođemo do pravih stvari možemo da vidimo šta je izvan nas stvarno. U sebi imamo isuviše slučajnih slojeva.”

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