Teaching ideas

208. A fully conscious person can play any role he wants to play.

209. We cannot be a role player until we are rid of the infantile decisions and the four dual basic urges.

210. We can be objective when we don't know what ought to be.

Teaching ideas

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

Who's in charge of my inner state of being? page 31 excerpt

We have allowed our inner state of being to be like an empty beer can kids kick on their way to school. One kicks it down this way, another kicks it back the other way, and another kicks it out on the street and a truck runs over it. And it's all flattened out!!! That is our usual state of being.

Teaching ideas

213. X renders "Not-I's" inoperative one by one, when they are observed and reported. They cease to be conditioning. They cease to operate the body.

220. When we are not trying to gain or escape anything, not struggling, the mind is quiet.

231. Fear is the result of wanting to be safe.

232. Just because we feel something, doesn't make it true.

346. Point of awareness can observe the conditioning, without identifying or trying to straighten it out. Only X knows what to do with the conditioning.