It is in one way something of a cliche to say that the most important need we have in life is the need for meaning, the need for our lives to be actually meaningful to us. It is perfectly true...
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By commentating on reality, we create the isolated ego-observer. What advantage then, we might ask, is there in doing this? What do we gain by the exercise? The answer here of course is that there is no advantage, except to...
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We create ugly things and then – as a second step, so to speak – we very carefully refrain from paying any attention to what we have created. We ‘withdraw from seeing them’ into some kind of fantasy. The result...
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There are only two modes of being that are possible for us - the tangible and the intangible - and of these two only the intangible is real. This is odd of course because we always understand things exactly the...
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Goal-orientated activity doesn't just take place within a framework, it is the framework. Purposefulness doesn't just take place within the context of the ‘mental map’ out of which were operating from, it is that map. Purposefulness can never be separated...
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The 'will' of the Extrinsic Self relates solely to the assertion of limits and the thing about this is that these limits (any limits, for that matter) don't really exist. Asserting limits is how we create and maintain the definite...
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When we live our lives on the basis of thought then we are always going to be ‘looping back on ourselves’, which is to say, ‘thinking that we're ‘getting somewhere when we aren't’. This is inevitably going to be the...
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Limits excite us. Limits excite us whilst freedom - on the other hand - frightens the hell out of us. We might say that we love being free (or that we greatly value freedom as an ideal) but really its...
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Only the part or the fragment can have an identity and the part or fragment don't actually exist. The part doesn't exist because in wholeness there are no parts, and wholeness is all there is. Parts are created by thought,...
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It is said that we live in the ‘information age’. Everything these days is about information – the transmission of information, the processing of information, the packaging of information, the storage of information, the availability and accessibility of information, and...
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The triumph of the replicator is simply to replicate. This is its ultimate achievement, the only achievement it is capable of recognizing. The beauty of this scheme – if we may call it that – is the way in which...
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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so very unsettling if we do come across it) this would...
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“What is the rule that tells us how to be?” is the same as asking what the method is for being, what the correct procedure or protocol is for being. We are asking what the correct formula is, so that...
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Pain or discomfort puts us under pressure to create the self – it sorely tempts us to create the self. As soon as we create a self this provides with what looks like a ‘way out’ – or at least...
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The very big problem with purposeful behaviour is that just as long as we are engaging in it, we will never encounter unstructured space. Goal-orientated behaviour will only ever take us to our goal, obviously enough! We don't want it...
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Things aren't what we think they are, people aren’t what we think they are, nothing is what we think it is, and this turns out to be - surprisingly - the best news ever! This isn't of course what we would...
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We all get trapped in the narrative. That's the thing that happens in life - if someone were to ask, ‘What is the main thing that happens in life?’ then this would be the best answer. The best answer is...
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It's always important to know what the scam is, what the con job is. Obviously it's important to know that. The con job which is society is an easy one to explain, even though no one will ever admit it,...
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