Snippet Studies
Volume II

1. The work says that the first sign of intelligence is the power of adaptation. When people refuse to adapt to new circumstances, they begin to die.
Nicholl

2. Without the upward transmission of energies through the intermediary of conscious attention, the universe would give in to entropy.
The Structure of Man

3. The structure, becoming more sensitive, helps to unify attention, so it is less liable to veer into mental channels that consume its power.
The Structure of Man
Green River Press

4. NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
An awakened machine is to negative emotion what the Absolute is to our whole imaginary human identity-instant annihilation, and the same is true of negative emotions - they are instantly annihilated in the presence of an awakened machine.
E. J. Gold

5. Eternity can be affected by what happens in time.
David Bohm

6. There are two wings that raise a man above earthly things - simplicity and purity. Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.
Thomas Akempis

7. Every emotion based on identification is imagination. Identification is a sign of imagination. When you find an emotion without identification; you will find an emotion without imagination.
'O'

8. Attention means different parts of centers. In some parts we cannot have attention. In others, we cannot be without attention.
'O'

9. The Christ and the anti-Christ are one and the same being but not one and the same person.
E. J. Gold

10. When the work is present so will be our chief feature. The two go hand in hand.
Gold

11. Chief feature is to the essential self what the chronic (sedative) is to the machine.
Gold

12. The Work and material organic seduction go hand in hand to protect the Work from the profane. The seductions are the guardians at the gate, just as in Tibetian mythology. Then if someone is not disciplined, the Work is safe from them. Why do you think gargoyles are placed on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral and not lower down?
Gold

13. The being prefers the familiar to its Self.
Gold

14. Anger is a reaction to fear, not a thing in itself.. . shame of fear creates anger.
Gold

15. You become what you most fear.
As A Man Thinketh

16. There is a definite name which describes someone who carries the habits of sleep by sheer momentum. It is called Karma. All that Karma means is that you are continuing to behave as if asleep when the machine is not. You are dramatizing sleep even though the machine is awake. Karma is the continuation of the habits of sleep when the machine is not asleep.
Gold

17. ... (if) you can learn to work together in a work group, only then might you earn the right to work alone. But if you cannot work in a group, then you cannot work alone. You are a group. That is to say, a colony of individuals working together as a team. And if you cannot get along with these people, you cannot get along with yourself which is also a colony of individual parts.
Gold

18. Enneagram:
                       Awake equals inner triad.
                       Awakening equals inner octave.
                       Asleep equals circumference.

19. The crisis if it is complete, means conversion.
Fritz Kunkel

20. Dragon's breath = sears its sphere.
      Dragon's scales =
      Dragon claws =
      Dragon tail =
      Dragon's cave =
      Dragon wings =

21. Meaning is a form of being.
David Bohrn

22. Conscience depends upon an understanding of objective suffering.
Gold

23. Essence survives/thrives under continual tension and stress. The personality can only function under low level tension.

24. Wanting to be wanted more than you want what you want destroys intimacy.

25. The life of the machine is death... . true death, and to identify with the life of the machine, is to choose death.
Gold

26. The essential being never loses its interest in anything. Its only the machine that loses interest. Where the being loses interest, it means that the machine has taken over. Has shut it down. The machine now owns the subject.
Gold

27. There is knowledge from God, knowledge about God, and knowledge which is God.
Gold

28. One must not inflict freedom on those who love their slavery.

29. Heaven and Hell are not results of what we do in life but of identification with the dream.
Gold

30. Jesting and levity accustom a man to ludeness. The tradition is a fence around the law. Tithes are a fence around riches. Vows are a fence around abstinence. A fence around wisdom is silence.
Rabbi Akiba