A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

some of these personalities, but is there any way of checking themlying for me, because they invariably do?MR. O. First, necessary to know them. We cannot start checking untilwe know them.MR. S. There are some people who appear to have a much greaterfacility for playing ball games than others. They have what somepeople call a good eye. Can Mr. O. explain this?MR. O. There are many different kinds of moving centres, with differentkind of memory. There is not a single man similar to another man.One can do one thing better; another, another. There are thousands ofimpressions, so combinations are always different. I remember I spokeseveral times about different kinds of men—1, 2 and 3 and so on. Oneremembers one kind of impression better, one another kind.MISS M . What is the energy we use up when asleep at night? Is itsimilar to that used up by our imagination in the day-time?MR. O. Yes, if you like. It does not matter really. It is the same energy.We do not use different energy asleep or awake, only in sleep wecannot lose so much energy; though in half-sleep one can lose verymuch energy.***[Questions read out which had been asked before Mr. O. came.]MRS. S. I don't know yet quite about laziness. Is it negative emotion ora group of 'I's? If the latter, should one try to struggle against it ornot? I remember something Mr. O. said, in one of the very earlylectures, I think, about not struggling against 'I's.MR. O. It is neither. It is for some people three-quarters of their life ormore. Sometimes it is very important. Sometimes it is what [is] calledchief feature. It is very often feature. All the rest depends on lazinessand serves laziness. Only again there are different kinds of laziness; it isnecessary to find them. By observing yourself and observing otherpeople. There are very busy people, always doing something, and theirmind may be lazy. That happens more often than anything else.Laziness is not only the desire to sit and do nothing.MISS R. Is there any special significance about its being a picture, inthe 'stealing a picture' example of activity?MR. O. I cannot even answer that. You must remember. I talked aboutburning a house, building a house, painting a picture, then stealing apicture. The word came quite, quite accidentally. Now you ask me