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

friend who came to meet me at the Gare du Nord in Paris, I asked himto remember himself there. But he only came with a very worried face,saying, 'I've forgotten something you asked me to do. Was it somethingI had to buy?'Q . I find in the morning I'll say I'll remember at twelve. Somethinghappens and then I remember at one o'clock.MR. O. Yes, it happens like that, but if you continue it may producevery unexpected results. The whole thing is to create this continuity.Glimpses may happen, but continuity. ... At the same time youmustn't be very dejected, because it works and grows.Q . We must self-remember in order to get out of the prison?MR. O. I forgot the prison. Yes, I think so. I think this is the chief partof the prison—that we don't remember ourselves. But you mustfrighten people. One lady in London said, 'Why do you speak aboutawakening if Christ didn't speak about it?' I said, 'But Christ spoke allthe time about awakening.' And she was quite sincere.***25.1.45.Q . Did you say that magnetic centre is a group of permanent interests?Would you explain?MR. O. Yes. If one remembers what he liked last week, last month, lastyear—if he remembers it makes permanent centre of gravity. Weforget. If we remember and continue to like, that will make centre ofgravity.Q . Wouldn't the nature of what we liked determine the centre ofgravity?MR. O. Nature isn't sufficient. We can still forget it. May have beautifulnature but we still forget it.Q . Is it desirable to formulate a centre of gravity such as you outlined?MR. O. It is simply that you have to call it something. Either it is thereor not there. Certain things can be answered only in that way. One cansay 'lack of centre of gravity'.Q. It seems that a man with permanent centre of gravity would behappy if he could remember everything he likes.MR. O. It doesn't mean—because memory doesn't guarantee. Goodmemory, bad memory. Yes, I think it is better to remember what helikes and even dislikes, than not to remember.Q . Can the Law of Seven be observed in the way things happen or appear?