Ouspensky Quotes

“Hay muchas personas caminando por las calles que en realidad están muertas; hay muchas en sus tumbas que están en realidad vivas.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“As Ouspensky says, it sometimes seems that the Perennial Tradition is reluctant to help seekers, but it only seems that way because, as Meister Eckhart explained in his writings, “If you haven’t the truth of which we are speaking in yourselves, you cannot understand me.” It’s not a matter of the Perennial Tradition making things deliberately arcane; it’s simply the fact that unless you have made a truth a part of your being you have no capability of understanding it.”
― Norman D Livergood, Perennial Tradition: Overview of the Secret Heritage, the Single Stream of Initiatory Teaching Flowing Through All the Great Schools of Mys