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Just as a man cannot lift himself up by means of his own shoelaces, so he cannot ordinarily get outside his own world-idea; the very faculty by which he sees and hears his surroundings selects some vibrations and shuts out others.

-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 3 : The Individual and World Mind > # 76