The mind knows it is the master in imagination and the slave of the fact. It will fight you all the way to self-knowledge. And why not It is the only enemy.
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The fact is always simple. The difficulty is in seeing it through the mind which always takes the imaginative way - until it is stilled.
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Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.
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You do not have to find what is true, when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will he lasting.
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Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
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Many mystics have said, and it is true, that anything you see is not God. Anything you think is not God, neither are visions, lights, moving objects or anything else. Any sensation or feeling is not God. They are all the products of the creation or your imagination.
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