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From: invalid@invalid.invalid
Wilson wrote:
> On 10/31/2016 4:51 PM, noname wrote:
>> 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.
>
> In my experience no matter how bad things might seem, it could *always*
> be worse.
>
>
>
Heh, maybe you've just been lucky so far, you don't seem as thick-headed as
i was. I was real thick-headed, made my way to a place where things
eventually got bad enough for me to figure out why they kept getting worse.
Bigtime forehead-slapper.
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