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The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness.
Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to do, yet it is an endeavor you cannot ultimately succeed in unless there is a shift in consciousness.
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.
They realize that having a belief system—a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth—does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is.
In fact, the more you make your thoughts (beliefs)
into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimen...
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness.
Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflection of the inner.
