The symbol of the ego is a triangle sitting on its side. It takes tremendous force to flip it over, or to make it move.
The ego’s job is to make you safe by making you do the same things you have done, that obviously didn’t kill you.
The Ego has a lot of energy, and the art is to convince the ego to use the energy to move you forward instead of holding you back.
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Dear Sophie,
I enjoyed your book, The Grand Experiment. I had previously read some of your articles on the website. Any subject you treat offers new and interesting insights. It is like you discover every time the last skin to peel off in order to get to the true seed of the fruit.
I found your website by searching the Internet and I am really happy and grateful to the Source for that. I was immediately attracted by your noble mission and your pure altruism.
There is no secret, no secret ingredient to raising your vibration, to become an expanding human being.
For those of you who have been making ever tightening circles around the secret, you may call it the Truth, this article will be first a big let-down. A disappointment.
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Poetry, poetic, poetic mind… not part of the fabric of culture in our times.
JFK was inspiring, Trump, Biden? coarse or boring.
At the same time there is a quirk to human nature: A result that is not poetic, a result that is not uplifting, a result that is not inspiring doesn’t register as a result. So people are left with a sense of nothing important got done. No happiness, no fulfillment. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to be inspired by.
And then the second quirk: that the skill people have for poetic language is completely undeveloped.
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Did you know that every revolution has been, historically, just a re-shuffling of who is going to have power over who?
When I first read Osho’s book, Rebellion, Revolution and Religiousness, I actively worked on understanding.
In Hungary we learned a lot more history than American students do, and I personally have seen revolution, and reform and all that never changed anything on the long run.
It’s like making a dish, turning it on a plate… and thinking that now it’s different. No. it is the same dish… just what was on the bottom is now on the top.
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Choosing
Choice is: selecting freely, AFTER consideration.
Matsa asks: hmm, it’s puzzling – if you never choose X, didn’t you, in fact, chose Y?
My answer: are you referring to choosing sexual preference? Most people have the choice made for them, societally and biologically…
99.99% of people never actually choose consciously, instead allow something else to choose for them: how they feel, their urges, society, the other, etc.
The best example for choiceless choice is: choosing your mother… choosing your life to be the way your life is. It is weird for people. They resist how it is… but there is no other choice.
I was interviewed by my friend Laser show artist and entrepreneur Tim Bennett of Argon Management last week. I just listened to the interview and I think it’s good, he puts me on the spot a few times and makes me talk about things I didn’t think of talking about… it is definitely worth a listen.
Go to Tim’s site to listen
Tim lives in Manila, in the Philippines. In addition to doing laser shows, he has an animation company, and a training company for aspiring entrepreneurs in the Philippines.
He is one of the most likable people I know… you’ll love him, and hopefully you’ll love me.
Go, listen. Go to Tim’s site to listen
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What is self-awareness? Is it feeling what you feel, thinking what you think, doing what you do, and knowing you are doing, feeling, thinking that?
I think self-awareness is beyond that, self-awareness is a positional shift for the self that is aware. Positional meant in a physical sense, in a physical movement of the vantage point.
It is one thing to feel from inside the body, and it’s another thing from observing it, as the body feels what it feels.
If there are words to the feeling, then it is the Mind that is attempting to label the experience… but your Self is NOT your mind, it is not even near your mind. You also, the moment your mind labels the experience, stop feeling, and now consider the word as the experience, instead… Much like eating the menu in a restaurant, not the meal. I have watched people doing that…
os·cil·la·tion
noun: oscillation; plural noun: oscillations Meaning: movement back and forth at a regular speed.
“the natural oscillation of a spring”
synonyms: swinging, swing, swaying, swinging from side to side, swinging backwards and forwards, swinging back and forth, swinging to and fro
In the human condition we oscillate between two binary states, two binary opinions, two binary forces that have an “or” between the words… smart/stupid, cowardly/brave, valuable/worthless, taker/giver, etc.
We are afraid of life out of control, of sh-i-t hitting the fan, of what we will do when that happens. So we keep on controlling, suppressing, resisting, and living a shadow existence.
Whether you believe this or not will make a huge difference for you. At the bottom, at the root of this miserable life is a word, a statement, about you, that you are using your life to alternately prove and disprove. A word that sounds like a fact but it isn’t… it is an opinion, not a fact.
A typical “oscillating structure” is the result, and no one is immune from it.
Oscillating structure (the expression comes from Robert Fritz’s book, The Path of Least Resistance.)
An oscillating structure is like a rocking chair: it gives the experience of movement, but it doesn’t move. It just goes back and forth, proving or disproving a “fact” that is a non-fact, untruth, un-reality, non-fact, therefore it cannot be proven.
Imagine spending your whole life trying to prove something that is unprovable, like the existence of god or the existence of life after death.
Not provable, not disprovable… forever an oscillating structure, that uses many lives, instead of living, instead of growing, people spend their lives to prove or disprove… pitiful.
Links to Robert Fritz articles on oscillating structures… recognizing them may be the key to starting to move in your life.
You don’t know who you are. You lie about it, you make up s-h-i-t, but there is not a you that you consistently are.
Landmark Education (and I think other coaches and companies as well) decided that who you are needs to be invented.
But all this invention, all this creation is on the top of an undifferentiated mess of stuff you don’t want to look at. So, whatever people in Landmark invent as themselves doesn’t last long, and has to be repeated, ad nauseum. People need to remind themselves… but that is obvious:
If you know who you are, you don’t need to be reminded of it.
