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

MR. O. How can I say for anybody else? What can I answer? Necessaryto know what people want, and then you can say, can you answer it?MISS H . I am so ignorant, I want to know things. To understandthings.MR. O. I don't know. Simple school. I don't know if it was a questionfor a simple school.MRS. N. I think I know and feel my negative emotions. Is to try andstop justifying them the only first step I can take against them?MR. O. They say so. I don't know about it.MRS. W. I want to be able to find and keep the only small part ofmyself which is capable of understanding what is true and false.MR. O. This is not small. This is very big.MRS. W. Can you tell me how to make room for this?MR. O. No, sorry. I can't do that,MRS. U. If one could get rid of fear and obsession with the future,could one then live in the present?MR. O. I don't know. Depends who he is. One man or woman canlive, another cannot. But I have nothing to do with that.MR. Z. Could you get help from people who have never heard of thesystem ideas at all?MR. O. I always prefer people who have not heard about any system. Itis possible to speak with them. Otherwise it is too complicated. Theyhave not learnt so much.MRS. x. What is reality?MR. O. Nothing, probably.MRS. Z. Are you telling us to forget all you have told us in the past?MR. O. I am sorry, but I never told you.MRS. H. How would you describe one who is living?MR. O. I don't know. Many millions of people living.MISS Y . I find the aims I formulate do not outlive difficult circumstances.Is it possible to find something I can put into practice?MR. O. I don't understand what you mean by it?MISS Y . For example, I find I want to be more free. But in practice, Icannot even control my voice.MR. O. Then you must control your voice. First of all.MR. Z. Can you give us a subject to ask questions about?MR. O. You must know.MISS W. Is what I call my conscience a real thing?