If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning round in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him – to escape from the [...]
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Escape from the eternal sleep
Posted in The Fourth Way on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Knowledge and understanding
Posted in The Fourth Way on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The difference between knowledge and understanding becomes clear when we realize that knowledge may be the function of one center. Understanding, however, is the function of three centers. Thus the thinking apparatus may know something. But understanding appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
- P.D. Ouspensky : In Search [...]
