We cannot escape unless we see that it is a state of sleep and we awake to another life in ourselves, a higher reality in ourselves. For this we must first know a state that is of a different quality than what we experience all the time. This is possible only in work in the quiet, in conditions that are free from the demands of outer life.

A conscious attention means something that is between two worlds.

commanded by associations from all my subjective impressions.

Presence; this required a certain “struggle” that was not directed against automatic functioning as much as it was for the positive aim of remaining present; it was important to maintain an inner “look,” to “stay in front” in an “act of seeing”; and one had to experience Presence as a “second body” in order to have a stability and independence that

It is an affection that embraces everything that I see and is indifferent to nothing. I need to see.

Another dimension cannot appear as long as the old thinking is active.

It requires a freedom to be in movement, not to stop the movement.

Instead of endless reactions—the conditioned responses of our automatism—there is the possibility of action coming from vision, from a conscious force that is higher.

To be true would mean to ask myself how much I can face this situation. Always