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“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I derived from fear of death, and only afterwards an entity which was not I came to constitute you. At that time people did not have an awareness of fearing oneself, knowledge of the self came from an other and was affirmed by possessing and being possessed, and by conquering and being conquered. He, the third person who is not directly relevant to I and you, was gradually differentiated. After this the I also discovered that he was to be found in large numbers everywhere and was a separate existence from oneself, and it was only then that the consciousness of you and I became secondary. In the individual’s struggle for survival amongst others, the self was gradually forgotten and gradually churned like a grain of sand into the chaos of the boundless universe.”
― Soul Mountain
― Soul Mountain
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
Legends of the First Empire
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Now that all the Kickstarter orders have been shipped...and since they have been so well received...we have done a second printing of the Legends of t ...more
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
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