that has already been the object of an experience. The image awakens an immediate reaction. This always repeats, so that there is never anything new.

But I cannot love outside consciousness. Love is a quality of consciousness.

The Fourth Way is to be lived. In the work to be present I need first to find each day a certain quality of coming back to myself. Then I must become able to observe my identification with the life force and find a place in myself in which at certain moments my attention can hold itself between the two. For this, it is necessary to work with

This intuition is the action on us of higher centers from which we are separated by our attachment to our functions.

The life force, the force of manifestation, is always in movement. It has to flow. And I am entirely taken by it, I am swept along. I begin to suspect that I will always be taken if I do not also turn toward another, unknown part of myself.

Only in a conscious state can we see the difference between essence and personality.

If I wish to develop my being, I must come to this point of no tension, which I feel as a void, as unknown. It is void of my ego . . . something I do not know—my essence.

With an attention that is voluntarily directed, we go toward consciousness.

After withdrawing to find something real in myself, I learn to go more consciously toward manifestation, to open to reality amid the activity of life.