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. OuspenskyRead
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Efforts toward change require alignment with the right ideas and direction.
In this quote, P.D. Ouspensky emphasizes that mere ideas are insufficient to bring about real change in one's life or existence. It is essential to not only have the right ideas but also to actively pursue them with intention and effort, ensuring that both ideas and actions are in harmony to create meaningful transformation.
Themes
IdeasChangeEffortDirectionTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote when discussing personal development during a motivational speech.
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Can one alter oneΒ΄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.
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People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
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We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
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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.
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