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KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Reasonable acceptance, our way of living, is imperfect. But God, if God exists, must be perfect and beyond reason.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it. Read in the moment and each step will take you closer to complete self-knowledge.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
The man-machine will crucify any conscious man who tries to help him; and convert his wisdom into an empty, mechanical dogma that suits his own understanding.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. You can only experience the new when you are aware, when you are without thought.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You will become more conscious if you use the moment of being rebuked or blamed to observe your reaction. You will observe yourself making an excuse, giving a reason.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You don't gather knowledge when you are getting to know yourself; you lose it. Many of your firmest ideas go out the window. You may feel naked, vulnerable, threatened, argumentative, angry.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Reason is a mighty faculty but it is still below the state of awareness, of pure experiencing, which is the state you are in when you know 'I exist' or 'I am'.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You can predict exactly what a machine will do if you have sufficient knowledge of it. A machine cannot go beyond the limitations of its design. The man-machine fears death because a machine cannot see beyond its own destruction.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
When self-knowledge reveals the answer it will be a living fact in your own experience. At any time you wish to experience the answer it will be there, just as you can say 'It is night' or 'It is day'. You will know, while the rest of the world is arguing and speculating.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Man conscious is man immortal. Man conscious gives to the creation as no other thing can give and is beyond death. But it is no use my just saying this. You must discover it, realize it for yourself.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
To believe what another says about you is unconscious, robot thinking. Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the timeless - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)