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Whether past and future lives exist or not is also of little significance. You can only be aware of the life you are living now and so in this sense, it is the only one you have.
What a heavy burden it is to have to battle with the world to get what you want and if the world does not respond, to have to battle with yourself. How hard it is to believe that if you are poor, ill, ugly or unlucky it is your own fault; that you are flawed and so must change. These ideas suggest that you are an accumulation of various shortcomings and defects which must be worked on.
materialism is founded on the proposition that matter is primary and consciousness is secondary. Idealism claims the opposite. Neither of these philosophies has been proven, and yet models of the universe are constructed around both. Each model is convincing enough and has its loyal defenders. Both materialism and idealism explain the phenomenon of the world via philosophy, science and religion, and both are right and both are wrong in their own ways.
Fear represents the most energetically intense emotion a human being can experience and so when a person fears losing money or not earning enough money they activate the most effective method there is for shifting to life lines where they really do have less and less money.
People then lose a sense of what they really want from life and focus on the fruitless search for money.
Self-importance can develop into a mania that produces a compulsive need to control everything. “I’ll prove I am right, whatever it takes.” It is a grave habit that makes life much more complicated, especially for the one so intent on defending their truth.
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Having let go of attachment to control you will find you have genuine control of a situation. If you move harmoniously with the flow of alternatives the world will meet you half way.
As a rule, most people are ninety percent preoccupied with thoughts of their own person. Even if you are sitting through a job interview you can be certain that the interviewer is thinking more about how well they are playing their own role than they are about the suitability of the interviewee.
A slide is a distorted picture of reality. A slide is something you carry around in your brain that others do not have in theirs.
Visualisation involves using the imagination to create a mental picture of a goal in as much detail as possible and carrying the picture in your mind.
When an adult dictates by the rule “you can’t and do not answer back” backing it up with the argument “because…” then they are not an adult at all but a fool endowed with power. Would not it be better to discuss things as equals and model the situation according to the principle of “what will happen if…?”
It’s called lazy parenting.
