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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Wilson  wrote:   
   > On 10/31/2016 12:24 PM, noname wrote:   
   >> Wilson  wrote:   
   >>> On 10/30/2016 5:58 PM, dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "liaM"  wrote in message news:nv5pbu$3ks$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>> On 10/30/2016 6:52 PM, dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>> gurdjieff's self remembering is the same as ramana maharshi's focus   
   >>>>> on the "I thought" or nisargadatta maharaj's focus on the "I AM". any   
   >>>>> extended focus on your sense of conscious presence will open up the   
   >>>>> direct line of sight to your real nature eventually. oftentimes it takes   
   >>>>> persistence and perseverance but anyone can do it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> As the delphic injunction proposes :  "Know thyself"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> but do you do it? knowing that you can know thyself,   
   >>>> and many know that phrase, how many really do it?   
   >>>   
   >>> It seems relatively rare to find one who does.   
   >>   
   >> It seems relatively rare to encounter one who thinks he can tell the   
   >> difference and can.   
   >   
   > Yes.  We are a fairly deluded lot.  But it could always be worse :-)   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   How so?  I'm seeing nowhere to go but up.  Maybe that doesn't imply   
   bottom-ness, I dunno.  One would hope not, but sometimes it's real hard   
   (for me) to tell.   
      
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