P. D. Ouspensky - Life Quotes

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There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them. Several such moments always recur to my mind together, and I feel then that it is these that have determined the chief trend of my life.

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

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

P. D. Ouspensky
Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones. And since we are able to trace how the energy of love transforms itself into instincts, ideas, creative forces on different planes of life; into symbols of art, song, music, poetry; so can we easily imagine how the same energy may transform itself into a higher order of intuition, into a higher consciousness which will reveal to us a marvelous and mysterious world.
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

P. D. Ouspensky
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