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Sept. 2020

The energy needed for the awakening of conscience—which is effect the awakening of real wish— always comes from suffering and from no other place. Exercizes have value not because of their mechanical actions, but because they create friction with the parts of Being that want to remain couch potatoes. And in every case it’s the frict…

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