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[...] Action may appear to be at rest, but is never at rest, or stationary, or permanent. [...]

[...] Yet even the action as it occurs within your system is constantly changing in the ways which we have described, and this changing in itself implies infinities of beginnings and endings within action itself, with no ending, a real or permanent ending, and no beginning, a real beginning out of nothing. [...]

[...] 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. [...] 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. [...]

(One of the subjects discussed at break concerned the degree of “permanence” of the physical human form.)

Physical matter is not permanent. [...]

[...] For various reasons that have been discussed there is no need, in the dream universe, for the permanence of image, or the apparent permanence of image that occurs in the physical universe.

[...] You can see however how such a temporary distortion could become, under certain conditions (that do not operate in your case) permanent.

[...] The dream universe is as permanent in its way as the physical universe. [...]

[...] Your body’s relative permanence in time is dependent upon the electron’s magnificent behavior as it deals with probabilities. [...]

[...] From some of these viewpoints, your physical matter has little or no permanency, while to others your own thoughts have a shape and form, perceived by observers but not by yourselves.

[...] (Pause.) Without rational illumination, the emotional elements may be so unwieldy that the artist, for all of his spontaneous expression, cannot relate in any kind of permanent situation of an intimate nature. [...]

Someone else may choose to focus upon intellectual achievement to such a degree that he shuts out all true closeness, and though he can accept a permanent relationship, he will not experience the emotional richness that others may derive from a much briefer encounter. [...]

[...] Your present image, for example, seems to be the only one possible for you, permanently yours for your lifetime at least; and what happens to it appears almost inevitable. [...]

[...] Although the body appears permanent and in existence from one moment to the next, basically it constantly rises out of the bed of probabilities, hovering at your now-point of perception and experience, and its apparent stability is dependent upon the knowledge of “future” probabilities as well as “past” ones.

[...] Men speak of having their own personalities, as if the personality were a thing that they had in their possession, a thing fairly permanent, a concrete, always-to-be-counted-on possession.

[...] The ego attempts to stand apart from action, and to stand apart from the personality, and to mold the personality into a more or less permanent and stable, dependent portion of the ego itself.

The ego attempts to maintain a clear point of focus, of stability, so that it can direct the light of the conscious mind with some precision and concentrate its focus in areas of actuality that seem permanent. [...]

The ego, while appearing to be permanent, then, forever changes as it adapts to new characteristics from the whole self,¹ and lets others recede. [...]

You focus your awareness in altered form into another universe, that is in every way as valid and permanent as your own. [...]

[...] Within it fulfillment and development are not dependent upon permanence of physical matter, however, and are not at all dependent upon any concept like that of your physical time. [...]

[...] physical world, however diverse, to fit together and form a certain kind of permanency and order. [...]

This plateau of his is not permanent, in that his condition will further improve. [...]

[...] The bedroom arrangement is fine, and if my dear Joseph will not blame Ruburt’s subconscious I would make one further suggestion that is not, however, to involve any more complicated arrangements on Ruburt’s part: simply, when it is possible, the addition of either a comfortable chair or a small desk and chair, quite simple, to your bedroom arrangement, as a more or less permanent fixture for a small private place, accessible when he wants it, for our so sensitive and sometimes pigheaded Ruburt.

[...] I suggest the bookcases as a permanent arrangement. [...]

A bedroom should also be a permanent fixture, as should a working room for Joseph.

[...] Even those who are familiar with our material, and know the various means by which individuals create a fairly cohesive body of physical data and call it the physical universe, even these persons will say that while they agree that the individual creates the physical universe with the cooperation of others, that universe has a unity and permanence and recognizable form that the dream world does not have.

So do you, viewing the seeming chaos of dream reality, wonder how I can say that similarity here occurs, and cohesiveness and actuality and comparative permanence. [...]

Love, even the transitory, which is image of permanent.

[...] These now, called root assumptions, form the main basis for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.

[...] One of the root agreements upon which physical reality is based is the assumption that objects have a reality independent of any subjective cause and that these objects, within definite specified limitations, are permanent.

3. Permanence is not a matter of time. [...]

If chemical alteration were made in Augustus Two he would return to the Augustus One personality, but the change would be artificial — not permanent, and possibly quite dangerous.

[...] Permanent relationships become most difficult to achieve under such conditions, and often love finds little expression, while one of its most natural channels is closed off. [...]

Your ears certainly seem to be permanent appendages, and so do your eyes. [...]

The differences in motion are so divergent that to you the chair, like your body, appears permanent. [...]