A 'game' is a state of conflict - an ongoing state of conflict. The point of the game is therefore to bring this state of conflict to a satisfactory conclusion (and we could add here that there are two ways...
When we act out of the External Authority (rather than acting out of our own unprovable, unverifiable but also quite irreplaceable sense of interiority) not only does this make us instantly expendable, instantly replaceable, and instantly generic in nature, it...
As I normally am, I can only ever see the world in terms of myself and this - of course - is something of an obstacle. Or rather it's not just ‘a bit of an obstacle’, it's an absolute one....
The reason we get super-serious, humourless, stressed out, aggressive, and mechanically driven in life is because our world has become decomplexified so that there is only one way to look at things, only one way to do things, only one...
The ego can only ever operate under the shadow of fear. It has to operate under the shadow of fear - this is always, always. always the case. If the ego is behaving in a way that is assertive and...