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They were these; that the entire world and its organization was kept together by certain stories or one in particular—like the Catholic Church’s; that it was dangerous beyond all knowing to look through the stories or examine them or to look for the truth and that all kinds of taboos existed to keep us from doing this, since.... [...]

[...] Let us examine what our friend just said.

—but you made some leeway with Ruburt in your last remarks (which I’ve forgotten as I type this) and I would like him to examine his normal habits in the light of what I said about his table and arrangements. [...]

[...] Few would agree, however, that you can learn more about the nature of the universe by examining your own creativity than you can by examining the world through instruments — and here is exquisite irony, for you create the instruments of creativity, even while at the same time you often spout theories that deny to man all but the most mechanical of reactions.

[...] We want to examine, therefore, the inner power of natural occurrences.

A scientist examining nature studies its exterior, observing the outsideness of nature. [...]

[...] Yet this inner self, this inner vitality, is one of the main clues which man refuses to recognize, calling it an unreasonable assumption, but not willing to examine it for those characteristics which show it to be the most reasonable and logical of phenomena.

[...] For his refusal to pursue the examination of such forces, mankind suffers greatly the results of his own ignorance.

Even my explanations to you involve a verbal dissection, which in itself distorts the very nature of the matter under examination. [...] But again, as you cannot hold your own breath, so you cannot hold that which is even more intimate, and which forms the very personality which attempts the examination.

[...] As a people you are always examining your impulses, and yet you rarely examine the fruits of your intellects.

[...] Because of a cancellation I got a quick appointment to see John this afternoon—and received a very pleasant surprise, for his examination revealed that my vision has improved since the last prescription. [...]

Next, when he examined my eyes for glaucoma, John’s tonometer gave readings that were midway in the normal range for eye tension, and a point or so better than they had been two years ago. [...]

[...] This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products — the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.

[...] It is also the result of your feelings and beliefs on a different level, and while it is not perceivable in physical terms — laid out with its mountains and continents as your planet is, to be examined by your instruments — it exists in terms quite as valid.

Suppose a scientist found a first orange, and used every instrument available to examine it, but refused to feel it, taste it, smell it, or otherwise to become personally involved with it for fear of losing scientific objectivity.

Your closest point to the withinness of which I speak is your own consciousness, though you use it as a tool to examine the exterior universe. [...]

[...] Had either of you really examined your conscious beliefs about this place, and put them together, you would have known that for yourselves.

(At 2:50 Dr. Wilson, whom Jane likes, came in to examine the knee. [...]

[...] Examine the feel of your consciousness as you do so. [...]

The situation made, you examine your own beliefs also, and to realize that you are generally in a state of excellent, practical health. [...]

[...] I know you have been busy, but you have not examined your beliefs as given in the book.

It is the habit, to one extent self-examination carried too far in that respect, of too much concern with the problems of the self anyway. [...]

[...] This present book, devoted to dreams and subjective experience, led me into deeper self-examination. [...]

[...] I made no effort at the time to examine my own subjective states — I simply expressed them as best I could and then criticized the poems on their aesthetic merits. [...]

[...] You can then examine your beliefs creatively, finding the correlations between them and your experience. [...]

[...] If you do not like where you are, then examine those beliefs that you have. [...]

It is impossible for you to examine an atom, a cell, or anything else except in your now. [...]

From your viewpoint, however, an examination of a cell will not show you that, but only its present condition. [...]