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Page 291
... mind has to free itself from space , which gives it a false notion of itself , but it can only attain this freedom by reversing things and by learning to see space in the mind instead of the mind in space . How can it do this ...
... mind has to free itself from space , which gives it a false notion of itself , but it can only attain this freedom by reversing things and by learning to see space in the mind instead of the mind in space . How can it do this ...
Page 292
... mind . Man , as mind , is not their inferior , but their superior . It is true that before he can reach this state of freedom his own body must appear to him at will either speck or world - that is to say , he must be independent of it ...
... mind . Man , as mind , is not their inferior , but their superior . It is true that before he can reach this state of freedom his own body must appear to him at will either speck or world - that is to say , he must be independent of it ...
Page 327
... mind simply that which enables us to merge finite reality in the infinite possibility around it ? Or , to put it differently , is not mind the universal virtuality , the universe latent ? If so , its zero would be the germ of the ...
... mind simply that which enables us to merge finite reality in the infinite possibility around it ? Or , to put it differently , is not mind the universal virtuality , the universe latent ? If so , its zero would be the germ of the ...
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