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The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates o...more

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For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. T...more

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but ...more

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The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was vi...more

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For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry...more

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Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and...more

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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal o...more