“What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsWellsLooksMayMomentsQualityKnow HowKnowingPersonalityDependsBest WayChiefsFeaturesImaginary Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.” KnowsMenWayFirstsMayDifferentEndsMomentsCircumstancesEgoMachinesThirdsCeasePermanentTreatmentPeculiarUnchangeable Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“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” KnowsWayWantMeanActionResultsOne ThingStrange Book:Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Source: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
“If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.” IfsMenWorldWayGivingWholeDesireStruggleFireAimSakePersonal DevelopmentDefiniteHinderFrictionInner WorldInner Struggle Author:P.D. Ouspensky
