Page 504 - Silence Speaks
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General - Miscellaneous
RESTLESS TENDENCIES
The only way to divert the restless tendencies of mind is to fix our eyes on the very real thing. One must go on reducing the activities, shaking off all superfluities that have entered into his being, for the purpose of shattering his individual network and assuming the purest state, one has finally to acquire.
CONSCIOUSNESS
You have made a very find point in attempting to derive the word anna from the root ann to breathe.
The grammarians have sometimes failed to grasp the real significance of words from the point of view of nature, and development of Reality, due to their over-emphasis on symbols and preoccupation with language.
I saw a peculiar dream on the night of 30th March. What I remember I place before you. It may explain your meaning of Anna. Somehow I got the wound of a dagger in the neck and died. I was thrown into the river. There was no breath and no
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