2 results for (book:ss AND session:523 AND stemmed:moment)
1/17 (6%)
environment
script
semicolon
pall
subjugations
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
As you read this book, now and then look about you at the room in which you sit. Chairs and tables, the ceilings and the floors, may seem very real and solid — quite permanent — while you by contrast may feel yourself to be highly vulnerable, caught in a moment between birth and extinction. You may even feel jealous when you think of it, imagining that the physical universe will continue to exist long after you are gone. By the end of our book, however, I hope you will realize the eternal validity of your own consciousness, and the impermanence of those physical aspects of your environment, and of your universe, that now seem so secure. Do you have that?
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
2/24 (8%)
speech
convey
unselfconsciously
transmitted
words
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Give us a moment.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(10:29.) Physical objects are the result of another kind of expression. You create them as surely as you create words. I do not mean that you create them with your hands alone, or through manufacture. I mean that objects are natural by-products of the evolution of your species, even as words are. Examine for a moment your knowledge of your own speech, however. Though you hear the words and recognize their appropriateness, and though they may more or less approximate an expression of your feeling, they are not your feeling, and there must be a gap between your thought and your expression of it.
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
