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.
Interpretation
To truly understand yourself, focus on others instead of fixating on your own identity.
This quote by P.D. Ouspensky suggests that self-awareness is attained when we shift our attention from self-obsession to the world around us. By engaging with others and recognizing the importance of external relationships and experiences, we can gain a deeper understanding of our true selves, moving beyond the constraints of our individual thoughts and perceptions.
In practice
In a personal development workshop focused on mindfulness, this quote could encourage participants to reflect on their interactions with others.
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.
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.
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
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.
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
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