Talk Takeaways
The consciousness that is the present state of humanity keeps trying, in vain, to create a kingdom of heaven for itself.
When we take the thought to be the thing, then we have belief in the thought.
People who act cruelly are themselves acting from an inner cause that they know nothing about.
The more you want something or someone, the more that thing or person will resist you.
The divided level of consciousness believes that cause and effect are only an experience that happens in time. Spiritually speaking, cause and effect are instantaneous, independent of time.
We have the capacity to be aware of the fact that cause and effect are not separate.
The only thing that troubles you about another person is what you want (or don't want) from them.
The mind believes that it always knows the cause of its pain, when really it does not know anything about cause.
Where does anger, fear and anxiety begin, and where do they end? If you want something to end, it never will. If I want something to begin, it can't, at least not purely. The ambitious mind is always in search of beginnings and endings that it believes will free it from suffering.
The fact that you want to be free of pain causes the pain to push back against you.
No one who is negative believes in that moment that they are an unconscious effect of their own conditioning.
Every reaction that you have that goes unseen becomes a buffer between you and the awareness that cause and effect are not separate.
Negative states are the result of a misunderstanding of who you really are, your true nature.