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Observations, a Journey into Consciousness

Following are a selection of entries from Linnie’s journal, which she kept from 1998 to 2003.


  • February 7th Why do we spend so much time thinking about the ...
  • February 13th We take life too seriously and yet not seriously enough. ...
  • May 5th How we see things or feel doesn’t depend on the ...
  • November 12th What is fear? Not, what am I afraid of, for ...
  • April 27th What does it mean to have attachments, to our image ...
  • August 20th In the beginning, students often remark ...
  • October 9th All through our training in the Alexander Technique we hear ...
  • October 11th The tendency in all of us, which we carry over ...
  • January 9th Images. We all have images of who we ...
  • July 16th We all seem to suffer from the illusion that we ...
  • February 22nd We all have the same fears, fear of losing what ...
  • March 27th We tend to think that to express ourselves honestly is ...
  • September 1st It is the ego that wants answers, that ...
  • September 14th Due to fear, which dominates our lives because we are ...
  • September 28th In early morning just as the ...
  • October 16th Whenever there is emotional pain, one likely feels helpless, powerless, ...
  • October 19th Who are we beyond what we know with thought, beyond ...
  • October 21st We tend to think we are individuals and yet we ...
  • October 25th Surrender always to whatever is. Try ...
  • May 13th Gray morning filled with soft clouds reflected in the still ...
  • October 2nd Early morning sun shines a pink golden glow across the ...
  • October 3rd Breathe. Watch the breath going in and out. ...
  • October 5th First sound penetrating the morning stillness, is the cawing of ...