Personality In Man Is What Is "not

Only Super-efforts Count.

You Can Never Awaken Using The Same System That Put You To Sleep In The First Place.

The First Thing, The Very Very First Thing, "find Out What Your Greatest Characteristic Is, Your Greatest Undoing, Your Central Characteristic Of Unconsciousness." Each One's Is Different. Somebody Is Sex-obsessed. In A Country Like India, Where For Centuries Sex Has Been Repressed, That Has Become Almost A Universal Characteristic; Everybody Is Obsessed With Sex. Somebody Is Obsessed With Anger, And Somebody Else Is Obsessed With Greed. You Have To Watch Which Is Your Basic Obsession.

One Of Man's Important Mistakes, One Which Must Be Remembered, Is His Illusion In Regard To His I. Man Such As We Know Him, The 'man-machine,' The Man Who Cannot 'do,' And With Whom And Through Whom Everything 'happens,' Cannot Have A Permanent And Single I. His I Changes As Quickly As His Thoughts, Feelings And Moods, And He Makes A Profound Mistake In Considering Himself Always One And The Same Person; In Reality He Is Always A Different Person, Not The One He Was A Moment Ago.

Ancient Art Has A Specific Inner Content. At One Time, Art Possessed The Same Purpose That Books Do In Our Day, Namely: To Preserve And Transmit Knowledge. In Olden Days, People Did Not Write Books, They Incorporated Their Knowledge Into Works Of Art. We Would Find A Great Many Ideas In The Works Of Ancient Art Passed Down To Us, If Only We Knew How To Read Them.