“It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.” LifeSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityRealizingLive LifeLive Well Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.” MomentsRealitySpiritualSleepHalfAwakeningAwakeThat MomentRealisingAwakenedSpiritual Awakening Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.” PeopleFactsSpiritualSpiritualityEmotionWorshipNegativeFantasticNegative Emotions Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.” LittlesSpiritualDesireSpiritualityStrongAttitudeConsciousIntentionDivides Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanRealitySpiritualWishLevelsMistakeJudgingDevelopmentHigherAim Author:P.D. Ouspensky