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 ego exists within a false world which it itself creates via an act of ongoing selective attention; we pay attention only to those aspects of the world that match our unacknowledged prejudices, in other words. Anything that doesn't fit...
As we go about our daily life we do something that is truly absurd and we never realise that we're doing it. What we're doing - without realising it - is that we're assigning meaning to everything we come across....
Our everyday type of ‘consciousness’ (so-called consciousness) is a prison. This sounds like hyperbole, but it isn't - this is a very straightforward statement and it's not some kind of loose poetic metaphor. Our everyday consciousness functions exactly as a...
When we straightaway believe what we think, or act on what we think, then we create the determinate reality which is the projection of what we think. When we always believe in what we think, or always translate our thoughts...