' The world '...

The world looks just as it did before; being understood for what it is--a thought-series--does not alter its appearance.

The sage's perception of it is like other men's; his senses function like theirs; but he knows that his experience of it depends on the ever-presence of Consciousness; he is never without this awareness.

This is the large first difference
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-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism >
Chapter 5: The Key To the Spiritual World > # 142
Paul Brunton