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Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself?A. No, it is more diffi...

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The Fourth Way

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldes...

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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feeling...

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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is ful...

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The Fourth Way

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one...

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Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became livi...

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A New Model of the Universe

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to...

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A New Model of the Universe

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there ma...

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A New Model of the Universe

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

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

The Fourth Way

Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things h...

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The Fourth Way

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

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P. D. Ouspensky

Born: 1878-03-17

Died: 1947-10-02

Peter Dimianovich Ouspensky, also known as Piotr Dimianovich Ouspenskii (4 March 1878 – 2 October 1947) was a Russian mystic philosopher. He was a student and expositor of the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff.More