Talk Takeaways
What the wanter in you really wants is to continue wanting.
A person can't understand a true teaching if he or she is already full of belief about what the teaching is.
The nature of the thoughts that offer to lead you through a disturbance are connected to what you want and to what you don't want.
The more conflict that is created by thought, the more that thought is called upon to deal with the conflict.
There is not one want (that is also connected to a not-want) that has ever put an end to the drive of that consciousness to continue wanting.
The acronym FOBES stands for "Fear of Being Empty Syndrome."
New self-knowledge is the answer to ending dependence upon the want/not-want level of consciousness that now has authority over you.
Presently for us, a sudden sense of emptiness is immediately filled with anything that we imagine will resolve the fear of that sense of emptiness. Self-knowledge teaches that it is not necessary and it is not our job to fill that emptiness.
Stop trying to escape emptiness by filling it with empty images.
The reason there is fear of emptiness is because there is no understanding of what the emptiness actually means.
We are intended to be aware of the sense of emptiness, sit within it, and wait for it to be filled, as opposed to filling it with what we want.
Let each "moment" pour into and pour out of your awareness.
The source of peace is to be full of awareness... Awareness of what you are being filled with is perfect emptiness.
We presently see everything in parts because we are apart from everything that we see. Everything is already in place when we are not out of place.
Images cannot stand up to the test of events that challenge them.
There is no set of rules as it concerns awareness and the so-called right way to respond to disturbances. Live your life and let life reveal to you, as you're living it, through self-knowledge, the right action.
When you are filled with something natural, it is unnatural to not give it back.