I mean that you always know ...

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another
I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another
 P.D. Ouspensky

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I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.
 P.D. Ouspensky
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
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
 P.D. Ouspensky
I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.
 P.D. Ouspensky
One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
 P.D. Ouspensky