Your inner state is like a tin can kids kick down the street. The greatest power you can exercise is to take charge of your own inner state.
You have the choice to determine any inner feeling you want. You are not hung up when you know you have a choice are you?
Ideals- Are ideals, real or imaginary?
What is I?
Identification, what is identification? Why do we identify?
Important- what is important? What is it that is necessary for a person to do or to be to have peace of mind and happiness?
Time, can you do anything yesterday or tomorrow?
Once a decision is made with feeling it is the rule of attitude, action until unmade.
Blaming- an attempt to escape responsibility of self.
Opposites, hot, cold, old, young, at which degree does something become hot? what determines that degree of opposites?
Awareness, are you aware of what is? do you see things as they are? or as they appear to be on the basis of preconceived opinions based on misconceptions?
Desire- what desires? does I desire? What is it I desire? why do I desire? Does it seem necessary to “I”to have what it desires? What if I get what it desires, or doesn’t get what it desires, is there a feeling of emergency?
Will- does a person feel different about the effort expended when he says ‘I have to do this’ or when he says ‘I am getting to do this’ What is letting him do whatever it is that he is getting to do. Who am I? Where am I?
I am a privileged invited guest at the party (life) held on the estate (world) of the host (God or X) the host gives me interesting things to do provides for each day, food, clothing, shelter, and transportation how can I have any problems? The only time a thing is a problem is when I make it important. This is not a premise. It is a perception. There are two types of guests at the party. Those who are sure there are many things that important. These guests make up civilization. Then there are those who make things interesting, these guests make up culture. Civilization is the barbarian invited to the party. He must believe in society, and in the way that it is told for him to believe. It is interesting to watch him, make everything important religion, politics, and all things of the civilized world.
Creative action, and accumulation of energy.
Anxiety, a dissipation of energy.
Thinking-essentially painting yourself a picture until you believe it.
The world is populated by infants in grown bodies with some technical education. There are very few adults who are free of belief.
Where is home? where the host suggests that you be at the time.
Is it ever wise for the guest to leave the party ( life) ? if he’s so wishes. All he needs to do is join the man-made world.
What is meant by universal law? When awareness replaces thinking, what happens to the intellect? Universal law is balance. It is impossible to break universal law. (balance). When awareness, replaces thinking, the intellect is expanded and can be referred to as wisdom, intelligence.
There are three unanswerable questions. Did I do the right thing when I? Am I doing the right thing by? And will I do the right thing if I? When an unanswerable question is put into the mind with great intensity frustration develops. The brain cannot answer questions that are not recorded within itself.
What are some common unanswerable questions? Why did this happen to me? What if? why —-?(concerning persons)
What are we like without conditioning? Sometimes people can turn off conditioning temporarily. It might be interesting to see what we are like without our illusions.
Why don’t you find out what you might be like?
Give up the value on all your possessions, your ideas, your beliefs, and your education, and you might see what you are.
Authority- one person who tells another what to think and believe.
