Our goals, plans, purposes, theories and strategies are how we avoid the intrinsic uncertainty of life, which – as a general statement – is obvious enough! The whole point about...
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When we say that we can’t be in the world without thinking about being in the world at the same time then this is just another way of saying that...
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Just about every minute of every day we are enthusiastically ‘opting for an inferior self’. This sounds suspiciously like a moral kind of statement but it isn’t. This isn’t the...
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In the world which is created by our thoughts nothing else exists apart from pressure. Pressure is all there is in this two-dimensional mind-created world. There’s nothing but pressure in...
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There is another, subtler world hidden within the everyday world that we know and are so very familiar with and we deny, obscure and repudiate this ‘subtle world’ at every...
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There is one idea that is more difficult to put across than any other, without any exception at all, and this is the idea that the world we see and...
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The primary illusion, the illusion behind all other illusions, is that we see everything from the point of view of the self. This might not seem like such a big...
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Reality – from a pragmatic point of view – may be said to be divided into two distinct domains – the domain of structure and the domain of essence. ‘Structure’...
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Life falsifies our illusions. If we had to say what the ‘meaning’ of life was, this would be as good an answer as anything. This doesn’t mean that reality has...
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When we pay attention, really pay attention to what’s going on with us then we discover something very interesting. What we discover is that what’s going on hasn’t actually got...
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Just as a pinhole camera (or the human eye) creates an inverted image of what it is looking at which it projects upon a screen (or the retina) so too...
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In the ‘neurotic’ conditions what has happened – across the board, for every single condition – is that our attempts to ‘fix the problem’ have become a far bigger problem...
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