There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure Being. That is just coming out of the waking dream such as nightly we come out of the sleeping dream.
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Is it not fatuous to criticise what people do, since they have to do it? The only thing we can criticise without being ridiculous is their identification which obliges them to be automats.
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Many of us know, are convinced intellectually, that our bodies are unreal but nevertheless ninety-nine per cent of our thoughts and actions are based on the belief in their reality, i.e. in their apparent reality, that what our senses tell us about them is real. That is perhaps a fair measure of the gap between intellectual understanding and real knowledge.
What of those of us who have come to conceive of them as force-fields in continual flux? Do we think we have arrived at a concept that has one foot in phenomenal science and the other in Reality?
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Until we have known Liberation can we hope to be free of that identification with the psycho-somatic apparatus? Until we are free of that identification can we hope to know Liberation?
But that amounts to saying, 'Until we have abandoned that identification can we hope to abandon that identification?'
Surely the answer is that they are one and the same phenomenal experience and therefore simultaneous, for in order effectively to abandon identification we must no longer exist (psychologically).
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The normal in Physics is the point of view of the majority. The normal in Metaphysics is the point of view that should be that of the majority.
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The wise man knows too much not to know that he knows nothing.
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