
The Reality of Being

commanded by associations from all my subjective impressions.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
complete sincerity was required.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
If it is not lived by all the parts of myself, I will remain as I am—passive and wholly at the disposition of surrounding forces.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
The Movements thus bring the element of shock in a right way. It is this that may allow us to pass the interval between si and do, which otherwise may never be passed. Only if we have a Presence that is stable, a second body, will we be able really to do the Movements as they were intended.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
Another dimension cannot appear as long as the old thinking is active.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
I live in my own narrow, limited world
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
It is really our own force that is stolen from us by the affirmation of our individual self. We say “I” all day long. When we are alone, when we speak with others, we say “I,” “I,” “I.” We believe in our individuality, and this illusion supports our sense of existence. We are constantly striving to be something we are not, because we are afraid of
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I begin to see that real knowing is possible only in the moment when my attention is full, when consciousness fills everything. Then there are no distinctions—one thing is not more than another. There is pure existence. The creative act is the vision of what takes place. I learn to watch.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
I need to accept emptiness, accept to be nothing, accept “what is. ” In this state, the possibility of a new perception of myself appears.