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and try to force it open. You have a sense of [resistance ??]
and at the same time a sense of effort. There can
be no resistance without effort: there can be no
effort without resistance. They are butonly two ways
of describing the same experience. It is a double
consciousness. We become aware of our self byin
becoming aware of the [not-self ??]. The waking state
is conciousness of reaction; and as the consciousness
itself is two-sided, so it has also two
varieties; namely, not willing action, where our
modification of other things is more prominent than
their reaction on us, and perception, where their effect
on us is far overwhelmningly greater than our effect on them. And
this notion of being such as another thingother things makes us [becomes ??]
, is such a prominent part of our life, that we conceive
| 1932
and try to force it open. You have a sense of [resistance ??]
and at the same time a sense of effort. There can
be no resistance without effort: there can be no
effort without resistance. They are butonly two ways
of describing the same experience. It is a double
consciousness. We become aware of our self byin
becoming aware of the [not-self ??]. The waking state
is conciousness of reaction; and as the consciousness
itself is two-sided, so it has also two
varieties; namely, not willing action, where our
modification of other things is more prominent than
their reaction on us, and perception, where their effect
on us is far overwhelmningly greater than our effect on them. And
this notion of being such as another thingother things makes us [becomes ??]
, is such a prominent part of our life, that we conceive
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