Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

P.D. Ouspensky's Popular Quotes

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

- P.D. Ouspensky

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

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

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

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Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in b…

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

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

- P.D. Ouspensky

Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again,…

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Everything we do consciously remains for us.

- P.D. Ouspensky