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Meditations on Responsibility, Part VII: Pondering
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Meditations on Responsibility, Part VII: Pondering

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Aug 28, 2021
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 It’s possible to develop to quite a high level, even one of conscious being, without fully shearing off the selfishness in us. In fact selfishness can become more concentrated and defended as one becomes more aware, because it retreats into a citadel when it sees the threat of self-awareness developing around it. Hence Gurdjieff’s Hasnamusses, creature…

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