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

held It seems to be too much to hold, and I have found that thereaction is a strong urge either to laugh or to cry I couldn't just holdthe emotion, for example when I get a strong emotional feeling aboutthe workMR O This is a very interesting observation Taking it just as astatement, the observation is quite right, but if you ask why this is so,several answers are possible I think it is best to say that there isinconsistency between centres The degree of one centre does notcorrespond to the degree of another centre That is all I can say atpresent without long explanations of things we are not speaking aboutyet Centres, in our state, are too much connected, too much coordinated,and a mechanical state in one centre immediately brings allother centres to that stateSpeaking in different language, we can say that we cannot keep theright kind of emotions because we cannot put them in the right placein ourselves They disappear and, exactly as you said, sometimes bylaughter What is laughter? Well, one definition of it is that it helps tothrow out materials from emotions which we cannot use in the rightwayMRS D I am not quite clear about the law of fate Is that the law thatis determined by our essence?MR O Yes Essence, type, fate are practically the same, but factsconnected with fate are very difficult to find except perhaps just almostphysical facts, a certain kind of health or capacities and things like thatThere are many other things, but they are hard to distinguish becausein our state essence seldom works separately from personality Manythings we have the inclination to ascribe to fate really belong topersonality, so it is dangerous to make conclusions But there are somethings we can see For instance, certain types of people attract certaintypes of people They have the same kind of friends, the same kind oftroubles, the same kind of difficulties, but of course never withoutpersonality taking part, so you cannot call it pure fate—more causeand effectMR F Will much more objective work be done in the new house thanis now done?MR O I do not know what you mean by 'objective work' There areno such terms as subjective and objective work When we speak aboutwork, we speak about doing work or doing nothing