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Love and freedom, Part IV: The Root of Image
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Love and freedom, Part IV: The Root of Image

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Sep 17, 2020
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In the act of awareness, it isn’t the nature of the image that is formed that matters. 

It’s its source.

If I believe I’m the source of the image, I become God. In doing so, I at once render the inwardly formed perception—the imagined— as my slave. 

Because it is of me, it ought to obey me. 

The problems with this mode of perception are perhaps self-evident…

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