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Action itself cannot be directly perceived. It cannot be seen nor touched. Its nature can never be examined from an objective viewpoint. The objective viewpoint will, at best, give but hints and signs. Action, to be examined in such a manner, would have to be stopped. You cannot tamper with action, not with the basic nature of action, because any such tampering causes it to change.

Action can be experienced directly, however, but only when no effort is made to tamper with it. It must be plunged into. Once more, action is not a function of structure. Action is inseparable from structure. Structure is action. Identities are action, as I have explained. Your idea of action as it occurs within dreams comes closer to the real nature of action than does your idea of muscular force. For in dreams the ego makes little attempt to impede action. Though in dreams you see or feel your arm move, your legs run, still the arm and the legs of the physical body may not move.

I use the mechanism as I find it, and do not tamper with it, for any tampering would be reflected either in advancements that he was not prepared for, or in alterations for which he was not ready.

[...] Any undue tampering disrupts this function. [...]

[...] If this were severely tampered with, the ego itself would suffer. [...]

[...] But here I am very careful of tampering, for tampering with “your” present tampers with “your” future. [...]

[...] To reproduce paintings, or in this case photographs, seems to be tampering with them in that regard. [...]

[...] The tampering will then change the conditions. [...]

[...] You are not tampering with the mechanics of its operation, and therefore automatically altering the conditions.

[...] He has attempted to tamper with it. [...]

[...] This is apart from the fact of tampering, or downright misinformation (long pause) as various factions used the material for their own ends.

[...] Only when that optimism is severely tampered with do the physical mechanisms falter. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to tamper with Ruburt’s precious ego. The assistant to the director of the Arnot Art Gallery is not to be tampered with indeed!

[...] It is true, however, that many cancers and conditions such as AIDS result because the immunity system has been so tampered with that the body has not been allowed to follow through with its own balancing procedures.

Other people may actually impede those portions of the body given to mobility, so that they limp, or tighten their muscles, or otherwise tamper with their bodies so that the end result is one that requires a cautious, hesitating approach to motion. [...]

[...] The exercises in spontaneity on your part will help to improve the hand condition, for you have been tampering here.

[...] When you know you are in a projection do not be tempted to tamper. [...]

[...] And if you try to consciously discipline it then, indeed you can tamper with its beautiful, spontaneous order. [...]

[...] If Ruburt’s main goals in work, for example, had directly involved and mainly concerned immediate contact with others, through university work or whatever, his mobility would not have been tampered with.

[...] Then the smooth coordination is tampered with. [...]

[...] He must now push himself to physical activity, into vigorous action, and in doing so he is expressing the inner decision that he will no longer tamper with intuitional spontaneity. [...]

Action tampers with identity, yet were it not for action identity would be impossible. [...]

[...] The tampering will then change the conditions. [...]

[...] You are not tampering with the mechanics of its operation and automatically altering the conditions.