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The ordinary man is the unenlightened man. He lives in a kind of darkness, although he seldom understands this fact. His state is determined by the position which his "I" holds in his consciousness. Does it dominate everything else, or is it dominated itself by the Source from which it springs and borrows its reality?

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4 : Detaching from The Ego (Part I) > # 38