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

MR. O. Certainly quite different. There is a certain correspondence,because they all live together in the same body. That is why somepeople have an extraordinary capacity to know time. Instinctive centreknows it. If they are connected, then intellectual centre also knowstime.MISS R. Would time for an individual conscious in higher emotionalcentre synchronize with time as it appears in mesocosmos?MR. O. It is too theoretical. We don't know. What we count by themovement of the sun is our own calculation, not that of mesocosmos.MR. C. I find that imagination is often associated with muscular tension.Could Mr. O. say more of the special exercises to help one torelax?MR. O. Before exercises are possible, use all the simple methods. Thebest method is hard physical work.MRS. L. How can one choose the right impressions?MR. O. What do you mean? How can one choose impressions?MRS. L. The only way I know how to produce deep enough shocks isto continue to turn the shock over in my mind.MR. O. It is impossible to say without an example. In some casesmaybe.MRS. L. One must give up. Does it mean change of attitude, or is iteffort?MR. O. May be effort, or change of attitude, or many other things.MR. R. A few times a year a line of action becomes particularly clear tome. That which seemed very difficult then becomes very simple and isbacked up by enthusiasm. I know by experience that if I put offfollowing this line at once, the opportunity will not show itself againfor a long time, if ever. Those well marked lines of action sometimescome as a result of effort, but quite often from no cause that I candiscover. What is the reason of this, and how can these moments bemade to come more often and last longer? I have been subject to thesemoments all my life and have come to think it useless to take anyserious action without what would be ordinarily called inspiration.MR. O. I cannot say without knowing in what direction, in relation towhat. As a matter of fact it is quite right. There are periods in ordinaryconditions when nothing happens, and then there come cross-roads.All life consists of streets and cross-roads. Even the turning in crossroadsmay become more systematic if one has a centre of gravity. Then