quotes

showing 413 Observations
taken from: Do-ing

”Man lives in the illusion that he can do.”
Everyone says ‘yeah’, but they can only see up to their own level of experiencing. You can observe how, when you want to do something, and then you go to do it, but you don’t do it! Or, you decide something the night before, and you get up in the morning and even the thought of it is gone. Or, you say you’ll never do something again and the next time you bump into a similar situation, you do the exact same thing. So you begin to see the gap between your intentions and your action. This is, maybe, the most obvious level of ‘man cannot do’.
Again, in the Work it is said:

“All real doing is indirect.”

 
At the mechanical level, ‘it’ does. You can, more or less, understand that. But Work Ideas have a density of meaning - even if they also stand-up simply as common sense.

Related Subjects: Doing
taken from: Do-ing

Another angle on this question of ’doing’. Man cannot ’do’, in his usual state - it’s a complete illusion. He doesn’t do - ’it’ does. A person might see that and say: “Well, no wonder I don’t have such a high regard for myself. I don’t know what I’m doing, I really don’t have control over it. So, I don’t really feel very proud.”
Now, let’s say a person had a more thoughtful background and was able to understand some of what is written here. Look - there are three major elements in ’doing’, relative to a ’conscious being’.
1) Why are you doing it.
2) What are you doing.
3) What ’state’ are you in when you are doing it.

Related Subjects: Doing
taken from: The Sermon On The Mount

That's a sincere intention, right? Not an oath. Anything more 'elaborate' that you're promising or swearing to do, or not to do, comes from your imagination. What do you think you can do, and what circumstances will allow it? It's imagination, it's ignorance. And when you're identified with your ignorance, that's the DEVIL. And YOU give it life! What is this saying, essentially? It's saying, 'don't lie'.That's all it's saying. You want 'God'? Then don't lie. You want the refinement of your own soul? Then don't lie. And you can see, by the various things that are pointed out here - just how you do lie.

Related Subjects: Devil, Lies
taken from: Suicide & After words

When a person takes their own life, one of the things that is so obvious is that they were in incredible pain - psychologically. People may take their life as a result of physical pain, but it’s usually around psychological issues.
Psychological/electronic body - it’s a Soul issue!

Related Subjects: Soul / Psychological body, Suicide
taken from: Talk with Three Sisters

Only Self-Remembering can build YOU. It doesn’t really matter what happens in your life. The harder the better. Because, everything that is difficult, requires a special effort. You get nothing real from your usual wants and your day to day bullshit, nothing that lasts. What you do get is so ’wishy washy’.

 

Be ready for death. It could come at any time. If you’re lucky it will be a little ways away, so you might have the time to build up some strength. THERE IS SOMETHING AFTER! When you die, you move into a new ’room’, into a new World. How are you going to do that successfully if you take every little sentimental stupid thing, fearfully – grasping, greedily, self pityingly?

Related Subjects: Self Remembering
taken from: Suicide & After words

There is a thin veil between the experienced and the un-experienced. But it all exists - and it all exists now. Whatever ‘is’ exists now. Whatever is after death, is also now. Whatever an individual can experience now, and whatever they might experience after the body drops - all exists now.

Related Subjects: Is
taken from: How to Get Out

It's crazy out there. It's seems that the people keep moving because they don't know how to die.
There's no end to the complications. How could it be different, how could society exist if people were not going to 'jobs', 'passing the buck', worrying about their children’s education, cloths, food and sex life, lying and fending off their parents' 'logical' questions. 
What's there to talk about? Why everyone is trying to steal from the next guy - from the shopkeeper to our high class 'professionals' - and all with a well groomed SMILE? '
But it's got to go on' you say, 'that's life, that's society, that's our CIVILIZATION!’
And by-god you're right! Take one ugly piece out of that, take one basic ATTITUDE out of that and the whole building would come down - and who needs that?
But do you have to be sick and crazy along with the rest of them?

Related Subjects: How to die, Society
taken from: Do-ing

I keep talking about death, it’s my favorite subject. There’s nothing more important in the bloody world. Until you live with death, you don’t know what life is. What does it mean: ’live with death’? You must have a mature relationship to that reality! It’s one of the only two certainties that a person has - and ignores it! There are two things we know for sure: one, we were born, and two, we are going to die - the body anyways. There is not another bloody thought in your head that you can’t attach a question-mark to! Until these two facts are a ’living reality’, whatever is in-between birth and death has no real context - everything is subject to attack by the ’universe of devilish imagination’.
So, there, the secret is out: why all this recurring talk on death. It’s amazing the reaction that the average person has to the subject. It’s considered morbid. ’Morbid’ and ’death’, in linguistics, somehow get related. Morbid is terrible, it’s like black - the most horrible thing! That’s the biggest mistake a man makes. Death is the best thing that happens to us - if we’re ready. Because it’s really a birth! People should get excited with the thought of death - to be prepared for it!
 
But the least a person could do is to take the bullshit fear out of it! Death is inevitable. Stupid to be fearful and turn it into a horror, and fog-up your whole psyche.
The implications of the Death issue are so wide, but I’m not speaking of it for that reason alone. I’m inclined to rub that ’dirty word’ into peoples’ faces, until they get used to the smell. It doesn’t smell like anything else on earth - but you can live with it. It’s really not like a bad smell, it’s just that it’s so different!

Related Subjects: Fear
taken from:

The psychological consequences of the death experience were immense, although most difficult to identify within the variety of factors that go to make up any particular state. The soul was unquestionably separated from the body and although the play of imagination can place any perception or conclusion in legitimate doubt there were certain aspects of the experience that left an indelible mark. Most impressively, when they confirmed or elaborated facts that had been read about in various serious texts anywhere from the Bible to the Teachings of Osiris.
'I had an experience the other day that was EQUAL TO ALL THE EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE TAKEN TOGETHER, MULTIPLIED BY ONE THOUSAND
In the death experience EVERYTHING OF LIFE HAD BEEN SHED. Then what exactly had returned?

Related Subjects: Death experience
taken from: Attention - God

We have only one birthday, the end of which we call death. Within that time there is a possibility for what is called ’rebirth’.That comes at the point where you experience the fact that you are not your body, or its functions. There is an essential you that was born, into a body. With that realization, you are re-born.
.......................
Before your natural-birth, you were not here. But, you did come from somewhere. Yearly celebrations of birthdays are ceremonies, originally religious ceremonies, that were meant to remind you of that fact.

Related Subjects: Death - rebirth

Pages