"If it were only for this life that we work and suffer, we of all men are most to be pitied."
Be ready, die to the false, now. When you leave the body that's the part, for sure, that you do not want to take with you - the speculations, the lies basically, the assumptions with which we maintain an as if 'identity'. Go to the essential 'I AM'.
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taken from: The Sermon On The Mount
Related Subjects: Death
taken from: End of Days
Death in disappointment or disillusionment is without a doubt the rule and not the exception.
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The end of the story is far from attractive.
Related Subjects: Death
taken from: Do-ing
’Death’ - can you face the issue maturely? Some people might call that courage. It’s not courage, it’s just simple intelligence.
Related Subjects: Death
taken from: Priorities
Just look at the issue of death. Death is when we leave this world and return to the spirit realm. Birth intothe body was ’death’ out of the spirit realm.
There is something essential to do in this life. It amounts to a preparation for continued existence, in the purity of the spirit realm, that follows the death of the body. That event is best served with the death of all falseness, while still in this world.
’WORKING FOR LIFE AND WORKING FOR DEATH ARE THE SAME THING.’
Related Subjects: Death
taken from: Bionic-Man
For a true relationship to Reality, you must have a fearless conception of ’death’. As clear as knowing your left hand from your right. Only then do the real questions of existence surface.
Say you board a grand passenger ship in New York heading across the Atlantic to England: The boat has everything - theatres, dance floors, dining rooms, tennis courts, swimming pools, night clubs, card rooms, gambling casinos, massage, exercise - all that you can imagine. You go ’Wow!’ But you know that in just two weeks it will be all over. So, you sit down, and think: ’what am I going to do? I can’t do everything! What would be really useful to do?’
We come ’aboard’ in this life - and the trip is over quicker than you can imagine. Life and death already exist in you. Every ’not knowing’ is a small death!
Related Subjects: Death
taken from: Priorities
What is day-dreaming other than being somewhat of an embarrassment?
Tie a string around your finger. That’s what some people do in order to remember something!
Can you be aware of what you’re thinking at any particular moment? Can you consciously choose the one thing that you most wish to think about, now?
What I’m asking might serve as a way to get ’a foot in the door’ - into an area which has been up to now mostly embarrassing.
When you tie your shoelaces, then tie them! When eat, eat! You hear what I’m saying? Most of the time you are not conscious of what you’re doing - it’s just ’happening’.
This is not an easy thing to look at. That is why I suggested that in order to remember you tie a string around your finger - as primitive as that might seem.
This could no doubt be expanded into other areas where you could be paying attention. That would take a conscious effort,but you just might get a foot in the door.
Related Subjects: Day-dreaming
taken from: Talk with Three Sisters
’You cannot control life’. That’s not obvious? You can’t control war, peace, sickness or death. You cannot control how anybody else thinks, feels, how they take you, or don’t take you, whether they love you, hate you, beat you, kiss you. You can’t control it. You cannot control what your children are going to do, whether they are happy or not, if they ’take-up’ with this one or that one, study or not, smoke or not. You can’t control it anymore than anybody can control you. You can’t see that, now? You cannot control life.
Maybe you can control yourself. Maybe you can get to know what your REAL SELF IS, behind all the stupid small ’I’s. You can always tell they are ’stupid’, because they always, eventually, get you NEGATIVE, a little or a lot.
taken from: The Sermon On The Mount
What do you suffer from? Is it all the stuff that you avoided, all those things that didn't 'agree' with you? Things that didn't agree with the mechanical habits of your mind, emotions, or body. The 'Reality of Now' you found 'uncomfortable'... and you didn't suffer it like a Man. You said it was 'wrong'. Eventually you are unable to say 'wrong' because you realize that your wrong is somebody else's right, and there are a million wrongs and a million rights. Maybe, then, you are approaching the end of mechanical, useless suffering.
THE WORK PROMOTES:
'Conscious Labor and Voluntary Suffering.'
You go to an issue of your choice and are prepared to suffer the Second Force (resistance), CONSCIOUSLY.
Related Subjects: Conscious labour and voluntary suffering
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One or another kind of wrong functioning is inevitable in the absence of DIRECTED CONSCIOUS ACTIVITY (conscious effort).
CONSCIOUS EFFORT can only result from pondered, evaluated, applied KNOWLEDGE of the WORK. There can be NO OTHER WAY. All other so-called spiritual activity is at best preparatory.
The lower gives way to the Higher when Higher Knowledge is ACT-IVATED.
Related Subjects: Conscious Effort
taken from: Priorities
‘Conscious effort’ implies having a choice! We are conscious beings, potentially. Dogs also have consciousness but don’t have choice within it. They instinctively bark at strangers, lick the people who feed them, and find a warm corner on a cold night.
Related Subjects: Conscious Effort