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Jeanne de Salzmann

“I have to see that the thought “I” is the greatest obstacle to consciousness of myself. Everything I know through my senses has a name. I am encumbered by names, which become more important than the things themselves. I name myself “I,” and in doing it as if I knew myself, I am accepting a thought that keeps me in ignorance. If I learn to separate myself from names, from thoughts, little by little I will come to know the nature of the mind and lift the veil it casts over me.”

Jeanne De Salzmann, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff
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The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff: Toward a New Being Book 2) The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff by Jeanne de Salzmann
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