The Reality Of Being, Decoded Getting To The Heart Of The Matter [Hardcover]

To be one, whole in the face of life, is all that matters. So long as I remain conscious of this, I feel a life within me and a peace that nothing else can give The words are Madame de Salzmann's, from the final page of her book The Reality of Being. I read them and feel good. For a moment I experience the peace that passeth understanding At that same moment I realize my incapacity and my non-comprehension and I feel bad. Stabbed in the heart by the sword of gnosis I want to run away, fall back into complacency. I see how I am, divided. Do I care? So long as I remain trapped in passivity, nothing new can appear: no Newness, no New Man, no New World. Do I really wish to explore the Unknown? Or am I only an armchair adventurer, a dreamer vicariously gaining the experience from another's travels? How can I know myself? My journey to inaccessible places begins with seeing that I am two: I wish, I do not wish. The act of seeing itself is the appearance of 'I Not the ordinary I that is deeply afraid and wishes only for security, but the real I pure, uncontaminated by fear, grounded in love. Without it I will never know what is true, never enter a world entirely new Her words convey deep meaning, far deeper than we ordinarily realize. To discover the New World requires knowing how to measure. Without the science of measures I cannot go far. It is my measure, the measure both of my capacity and of the quality of my moment of work Knowing the code of measures, I can decipher the reality of who I am. This book provides the keys to the code.