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P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: A man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

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 quotes: We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking,and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' speaking.

At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking,and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' speaking.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: 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.

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.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Art is the communication of ecstasy.

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

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 quotes: The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

P.D. Ouspensky quotes: Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.