In order to understand finite games all we need to do is imagine ‘a Mover who moves but is not in turn moved, ‘an Influencer who is never influenced’. To be the ‘Unmoved Mover’ is the goal of all finite...
The quintessential action of unconsciousness is the action of 'us trying to mould the world to our ideals or standards'. This is how we stay safely unconscious - by continuously doing our very best best to organise the world around...
Once we understand that all our regular, everyday mental activity is about ‘striving to obtain an impossible goal’ (or ‘striving to maintain a picture of reality that isn't true’, which comes down to the same thing) then everything becomes a...
When you think you’re ‘somebody’ then that's bad news. That's a disaster! When you know you're not anybody then you're laughing, you're as free as a bird, but we don’t happen to see things like this. We see things exactly...
We become terribly fond of the patterns which we get trapped in. We get so very fond of these patterns that we think they ARE us. We actually are the repetitive patterns that we fall into, for all practical purposes,...
The world that we are in is the world in which we lose ourselves. It's a ‘lose yourself' world – it's an invitation to lose ourselves that we can't refuse! We lose ourselves in identity – we think we are...