From notes of RRG

Life doesn't provide the ideal--it provides reality. Being alive is a tremendous gift, and I am not entitled to anything.

The human mind is the maker of problems. A problem is something we want to change to get along based on conditioning.

Whenever we want to change something, we have judged it.

It is not what happened to us or what has been done to us, but what we decided about those things. And for those decisions, we are responsible.

Teaching ideas

The conditioned self is the victim and the victimizer. Feeling like a victim has nothing to do with anything out side ourselves.

We cannot change ourselves. We can only be aware of what is there without judging it.

Anger and self pity are the effort to control people

Anxiety is fear of living

Suggestion appeals to us because we feel that we need something

We are highly suggestible as long as we have an ideal. To get over being suggestible we see that we're already the recipient of every gift life could bestow us.

If one decides to be miserable, he will be. We can be miserable if we set ideals of how things ought to be. If we have something interesting to do, we will not be miserable.

What is our mind occupied with all day? What we don't like? Finding fault? Worry? Upset? A sense of urgency? Anxious? Complaining? Blaming? What we are occupied with is what will actualize. Complaining will bring about conditions to complain about. We can be in charge of what's in our head. The ideas in our head are what the result of what our purpose of living is.

What we really experience all day long is our inner state of being. Everything else we sense.

We have it all: food,clothing,shelter,transportation,interesting things to do and interesting people to be around.

The four questions---What am I? Where am I? What's going on? What can I do?---provide true true perception and feeling. Energy is generated. The body regenerates. We are renewed. Energy flows properly. We determine the kind of energy flow we are going to have.

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No one can think or say anything about 'Me'....they can only express what they feel when I'm the subject of their thoughts or speaking.