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actually not even towards the printed words, but to a meaning that kind of surfs on top of the black letters and just happens to stimulate our mind.
Unlimited Horizons
So now where's our reality of working, eating, drinking, sleeping etc.?
Out of the billions of impulses presented to us second after second, we select a minute amount of material we allow to get through to us, to our awareness. We couldn't possibly attend to all the rest because it would overwhelm our consciousness and block us completely. We have to select. And this selectionprocess is so subtle, so automatic we hardly ever notice it. Only sometimes, when we abruptly come out of a state of deep concentration, do we become aware how much we closed out our surroundings.
Now, we might think that this kind of selection is something we handle quite well, for example when we decide to read a book, to drive a car or to attend a lecture, - undoubtedly activities that require focused attention, a certain presence of mind.
But let's see what our consciousness is really doing with us and how little we control this process.
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How often while reading a book did we have to go over one particular paragraph again and again because our attention was drifting to some other subject? We wanted to read, but our selection process directed our attention towards something entirely different. Certainly, the words reached our eyes, but they didn't get through to our awareness. Something was closing the book to our attention, even though we didn't want to.
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