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Notion of Control
Everybody these days dabbles in some self improvement reading, or almost everybody, and what do these books (or texts as the case may be) usually say to hook us? “You will become a better person — because we’ll help you to get rich”? Oh, that’s quite common, yes. Live the life you dream. Find the…
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Space to Move
To renovate, to renew, to revive we must clear away blockages. What is it that makes something a blockage? Resistance? Can you renovate without removing anything? Maybe by enclosing all the old stuff in a new package, but that’s not really renovating. Abandoned perception. First perhaps a clarification of will. That thing that I mention…
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Free Your Perception
Let me ask you, if there weren’t any bill boards, and someone approached you with the idea of creating them, and they needed your permission to do so, would you give it? ABSOLUTELY NOT! So why do you give permission for posting in your mind? We all absorb a great deal of material. We voluntarily…
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Repair the Mind
After you repair the structural damage, well maybe I am getting ahead of myself… How to repair damaged regions of the mind. First, reopen the original context in which it formed. You have to recover a sense of why you thought and felt that way in the first place, and then you have to connect…
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Our Quantum Zeno Effect
Guess what seems to be the foundation of any stability in our world? They are even depending on it for the advancement of quantum computing. Shall I just say? Holding multiple perceptions? Actually, I will get into that. They call it the quantum zeno effect. The more something is observed, the more steadily, the more…
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A Shadow Across Time Space
Space is three dimensional. This takes no wild stretch of the imagination. Time is also three dimensional. In our normal experience, we perceive time to play out over dimensions of space. We perceive ourselves to age over the dimension of space we allocate to our bodies, but in general, time seems to be invisible to…
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Repossess the Resident
Shall I reveal what actual “house” it is that you renovate? Well, it’s framework is made up of all the freeze frame moments of the self. Each version of you forming a pillar in the architecture. Remember the quantum zeno effect? Nothing can move? You are being perpetually observed, so you have in fact never…
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Differing Approach
Do you do what you do with your frustration, because it’s frustration? We adults have reasons. What if you handled frustration as frustration and didn’t make up reasons for it? How would you behave? How else to handle it? Oh, you make up reason for your frustration, and make up things you are supposed to…
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Cut the Knot
Space [female] is not always willing or available for Time’s [male] possibilities….or is she? It always is. That’s a human notion and not a natural notion. We don’t see the middle ground, the common ground, and we only fail to see it because we aren’t looking. You are looking everywhere but at the ground you…
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Self is No Thing
How often does it feel like you just aren’t thinking anything? Does this occur to you? Not often if ever for me. For myself, it’s pretty much never the case, but this is not necessarily a good thing. Pretty often especially when observing things. What is the self? How do you know who you are?…
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Echo Off Your Self
When you began as an independent being there was nothing in your mind or on your mind, just an echo chamber of sensation, both internal sensation and external, and you were there. You didn’t choose to have a self. You didn’t choose to make up some idea and call it a self. You were simply…
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Operating On Sensation
Does trauma make memory sharper or more weakened? It makes it sharper and more distorted. More narrow. It’s like you learn first aid and think you will never be able to remember everything in an emergency, but somehow you do. Exactly. For myself, the experience of my first breast feeding was negative. I was allergic…
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Waste Energy
How drained do you feel? How much of your personal time energy do you personally control? Do you feel fully alive on a day to day basis? Oh, no. To actuate or turn on would mean to be fully functional, alive and running at full power, yet we don’t experience this. Why is this? That…
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Vision of the Soul
So my point is this, just as important genetic code is conserved, important bits of experience are conserved, and not because they are building a self. Your self doesn’t grow like an organism. It is already a very vast presence. It preserves those special elements of experience, because these things are recognized as something the…
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Your Soul Knows
There is a simple secret to translating this otherwise kind of mysterious stuff. Does it seem mysterious? The way to make sense of it is the same way you made sense of new things you saw as a child. You not only noticed the new thing, but you watched it change or move over time,…
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Problem Solving
I’d still like to get an idea of what I’m supposed to be looking for. You are looking for where it all goes. What’s becoming of everything, and what it could become when you get to it. I think we get stuck on the idea that we need to look for a stopping point rather…
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Interpretation of Experience
I may suggest some things that seem strange or confusing to begin with, please bear with me and hopefully my ramblings will begin to make sense. So the self, the mystery that it is to be an individual being in a diverse world. As strange and paradoxical as much of human nature may seem, we…
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Concern Over Circumstance
When painting you require both a subject and a medium. Where do we draw our subject for our creative work? Are there creative subjects in the world around us? Based on our perceptions isn’t everything creative? Is anything of it’s own nature a creative subject. Does anything suggest it’s own creative essence? There is a…
Category: Self
Self awareness is the first spirit. The first sphere or plane of existence. Signs of self are always two, one dream, one nightmare. Those two facets, the vivid and the darkened, are on the same level. Self awareness is returning to the middle way. Continuing to recognize despite the vastness of it all that you are still present and able to choose.
Self is life. It’s why we are concerned with life, but how do we lose self awareness? How do we become creatures of our experience only? How do we fall asleep? If you seek truth, if you desire wisdom above all else, this is life. Heed your beating heart, listen to the whispers of your breath, and remember that you stand upon the earth.
Open chapter on Self Development | Self Esteem.
“We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.” Sarah McLachlan (Canadian Singer and Songwriter, b.1968)
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.” Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control – these three alone lead to power” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, 1809-1892)