P D Ouspensky

A quote from his book 'The Fourth way'

The chief idea of this system was that we do not use even a small part of our powers and our forces. We have in us, so to speak, a very big and very fine organization, only we do not know how to use it......iwe have in us a large house full of beautiful furniture, with a library and many other romms, but we live in the basement and the kitchen and cannot get out of them. If people tell us about what this house has upstairs we do not believe them, or we laugh at them, or we call it supersition or fairy tales or fables.

Does he say why we do this?

We forget ourselfs to often. We don't 'self remember' ourselfs.

Why?

Because we don't 'practise'. Read the book as this is only my interpretation of what I am reading. Its about being self aware, asking 'who am I' as we are many 'I''s, "am I present now", that sort of thing.

I think it is a bit of a myth that we only use a portion of our brains; the psychologist William James started it in the nineteenth century:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...rcent-of-brain

I think it is more exciting to think we have a sports car under us instead of a family station wagon or minivan

Think its about a whole lot more than which car creates the most personal excitment. Some books you read and they leave you on the spot, this book has got me thinking a lot, I like it when I book that does that. Read james when I first got too AA, can't remembmer much about it to be fair.

Yes, I love books that make me think and get my creative or imaginative juices going! I guess that's what my sports car excitement means to me; the day-to-day "facts" can get boring and imagining other ways of being/doing can often open new personal pathways.

I got a keyboard & am taking piano lessons at 65, just to try to open new pathway in this old brain. Wish I could have before/afore pics every 6mo or so.