You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.
P.D. OuspenskyIdeas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
P.D. OuspenskyLove is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
P.D. OuspenskyThere is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
P.D. OuspenskyThe problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
P.D. Ouspensky