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"Negt II “Essence-shame3 is man's lever on himself.ˮ ’ Shame of a weakness implies the presence ofa strength. g. He who feels ashamed of slavery can win free dom. He who feels ashamed of ignorance3 can attain knowledge. H f nothingnesss can be. III IV The desire to be has become the desire to We can belong to things, not to ourselves.■ The open conspiracy: “Letʼs do outside things; inside things are too disficult.ˮ I am not being;’ I am the obstacles5 to being. I am responsiblee for my own realization. VI VIII Productivity is my first aim. I struggle that I may not die through life. He is soil no longer fertile for me to plant in. We must husk off even friends—to5 make way for new friends. Growing is a stern taking and eliminating,, as relentlessJ as life itself. Let your doing be an exercise, not an exhibi tion. Do now what you wonʼt be doing an hour from INOW. Reject compromises3 which give you nothing because they give you less than you want. Those who seek peace too often find comfort. X XI XII XIII We want to be free from the things we want. When people do not care, nothing can happen. There can be only events of inertia. XIV We dislike criticisms of our weaknesses;J for, when our weaknesses are touched we feel defenseless, helpless. We hate to feel helpless. We do not mind the weakness,, as such, i nor the criticism of it. We object to the helpless feeling caused by such criticism. In losing a false base we seem to lose all. XVII XVIII XXI XXII XXIII !. . XXIV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXXI Because of unbecoming human relationships? the world stinks like an outhouse.. There is no love, no faith, no trust, but what the world calls forthI to violate. These are not dead; these are among the hope less living things.• Far from1 loving: all that breathes we do not love even those we do love. Occidental romance has led to Freud. XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXVIII XL Each ofus has in himself a fool who says I'm wise Most novices picture themselves* as masters— and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. when I speak I am persuaded.• People mistaketheir limitations5 for high standards. Ordinarily, each person is a cartoon of himself. XLII XLIII XLIV XLVI XLVII XLVIII L LI We learn the rope> of life by untying its knots. LII The strength of personality can be known by sensing how much it resists dying. Unless a man dies consciously he will die. There are eighteen hundred1 million living men. Living men must bury eightcen hundred million deadI men. More than one must go up or all will go down. Man has no chance but the right one. LIII A running man cannot take a new direction. This work is for those who are conscious3 of the need of a key to their own life. “Man never sees himself.ˮ* Most needs are relative to bits of time; the needI of consciousness4 is relative to all time.> To observe oneself is to conceive a new direc tion and a new being. LIV Existence is in terms of long-distance objec We must learn to use time as a curative agent. A person's way of life can be modified; it is disficult to change his nature. A man is not as much as he feels he: ifi, but he is as much1 as he feels. We do not have statesJ of being; we have states of dreaming. • LVI LVII LVIII LIX We are hypnotized by literacy. LXII LXIV