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

Perhaps it is possible to explain why—it is partly because—well, I willthink about it. Maybe I will speak about it later.MISS S. Someone struck me as rather pitiful the other day, and whilethinking how to help them I tried to self-remember at the same time.The result was somewhat surprising in that I found I could give verylittle help, and then only materially. In such a case, when the person'soutlook is obviously at fault, and yet they are quite unsuitable forsystem work, is there anything one can do to put them on the rightpath?MR. O. What is the right path?MISS S. To try and do what we are doing.MR. O. Yes, but you say if they cannot.MISS S. Yes, but couldn't they approach it slowly?MR, O. There are many more answers than people.MISS S. Can we be told soon how to find and bring new people to thesystem?MR. O. Wait a little. It will come.MISS S. In the middle of a lecture I often feel myself getting extremelytired and dull mentally. But if, on the other hand, some new thing thatcomes up interests me particularly, the tiredness disappears. Is this theinterval in the octave, or is it genuine fatigue?MR. O. This is third force.MISS S. I think I asked before, only I do not remember the answer: canone make a whole octave by oneself in an ordinary state?MR. O. It depends in what, how, and all that. We cannot speak in relationto practical things about abstracts. You must describe—in doing what?MISS S. Is essence always good?MR. O. No, not at all.MISS L. Is the neutralizing force the circumstances surrounding thepassive force which allow the active force to work?MR. O. No, not only. It is a force by itself. They are equally forces,both active and passive.MISS L. Is it connected with passive force?MR. O. Everything is connected. Active is connected, passive is connected,neutralizing is connected. What is neutralizing in one triad, inanother triad can be active, and in a third can be passive. Forces arenot always active, passive or neutralizing; they become active, passiveor neutralizing only in a triad—according to their function. It is more