Talk Takeaways
Within each moment is that which understands the purpose of its creation.
The purpose of real contemplation is to give an individual, according to their willingness, an ephiany, which is a simultaneous glimpse of the opposites, revealing a wholeness that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Desperation is born of feeling oneself as separate and apart from life.
Nothing that you can think about is new. Everything that you think about is you deriving an identity from that relationship.
Where does every unwanted pattern begin other than with these two words?: "Oh no." Not wanting the moment seems like a valid feeling.
The greater our resistance to our experience, the more desperate becomes our search for a different experience.
We are disturbed not by the moment itself, but by the nature that rejects the moment and does not want the experience of itself. Most of our lives are spent not wanting the experience of ourselves.
How can you get negative without believing that you are supposed to be in control of life?
One definition of insanity would be to look to an old pattern to find a fresh, new beginning. We find a temporary sense of relief and safety in the old pattern, but it ultimately proves itself to be a prison.
The self that you want to be is not separate from the self that you do not want to be.
The experience of yourself cannot be anything other than what it is in the moment. If you see that, then you can begin to investigate the self that does not want the experience of itself.
We look out at life and see only one opposite at a time. We see what troubles us, but we don't see that which is troubled. Changing that which troubles us does not really change anything.
The moment that we don't want the experience is the same moment that the consciousness creates something that it believes will change the experience.
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