“There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.” ThinkingAwful Book:Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Source: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
“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
“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.” ThinkingInspirationalMeanDifferentStatesFeelingsRememberConsciousnessFunctionOneselfStates Of Consciousness Author: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.” ThinkingShouldFeelingsChangedPennies Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.” ThinkingShouldHelpingEmotionNegativeNegative Emotions Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.” IfsThinkingWantLongRememberBest ThingsAbout Yourself Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksDifferentRememberFormOrderNextOpportunityChanceLossMistakeKnow HowRemainsFoolishSillyExceptionNext TimeBlunders Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“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 essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.” ThinkingWantFightingEvilLevelsPathProgressStageJudgingDevelopmentEvolutionEssentialsStandardsBe GoodBarsRelativeStimulusHigh LevelStages Of Development Book:Talks With a Devil Source: Talks With a Devil
“I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.” ThinkingMenFeelsMayHas BeensFateImagineCompanionImagine ThatAccustomedCovering Book:A New Model of the Universe Source: A New Model of the Universe
