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

MR. O. It depends what octave. For instance, in the Food Octave oneshock is provided by nature. In the second place one must provide theshock for oneself. Generally one cannot, without special study, trainingand help. The same refers to the third shock, which is more difficult.MRS. D. Did you say all our likes and dislikes are in false personality?MR. O. Most of them are. And even those which did not belong to itoriginally, which have real roots, all pass through false personality.MISS R. How can one deal with the negative things which would ariseif one did see false personality?MR. O. You have to bear it.MRS. N. Does one have to know the whole of false personality in orderto struggle against it?MR. O. One must know it. It is like a special breed of dog. If you donot know it you cannot speak about it. If you have seen it you canspeak about it.MR. R. Is it possible to know the whole of it? It seems to me you couldonly know bits.MR. O. That is quite enough. Every small part of it is the same colour.If you saw this dog once you would always know it. It barks in aspecial way, walks in a special way—everything is different.MISS C. Is pity a negative emotion that has the possibility of beingchanged into something different?MR. O. Leave possibilities. We are not speaking about the possibilitiesof negative emotions. That will only create imagination and nothingmore.***