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Now, if for a week, you looked at your present physical daily reality and your sleeping reality as not two separate existences but one, then they can merge in a most dramatic way. When I say this, you are bound to interpret my statement to mean that daily waking reality may become dreamy, or blurred or indistinct. But this is not what will occur. Both realities are your own, and the sense of division need not exist.
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Feel, now, your own consciousness. Look about you and see what you perceive. Listen to what you hear. Now, I tell you that in another reality you are presently sleeping, in your terms, and yet how conscious and aware you are.
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Now, all of this effort, in your terms, will be quite valuable to you in this existence, as well as in others, in your terms. But the potential is within you now, and the source of your knowledge is indeed infinite. It is only you who have to learn how to draw upon it and use it. And in your terms it will seem to appear at different stages. It will seem to... get better. You will seem to draw upon a greater source as you learn to use your own abilities. And in all cases, the ego that you know develops and learns, and this alters the nature of the self that you are now, and it changes the characteristics of the ego as you presently think of it.
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