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taken from: Respond Ability

Time, Place and Company are things constantly to keep aware of for the sake of whatever, high or low. But questions arise as to where to place the attention. ENERGY IS ALWAYS A LIMITATION. Money doesn't grow on trees, and also not energy. Like money, you've got to EARN it. And you can only spend what you've got.

Related Subjects: Energy
taken from: How to Get Out

All our energy is poured into supporting, by act or attitude, some continuing picture - a picture that ultimately has thousands of little pieces drifting into and out of place and ultimately ends in some configuration momentarily 'in place' but bearing, in its totality, LITTLE resemblance to the originally projected finality!

Related Subjects: Energy
taken from: Priorities

Is it too much to expect the young women to consider ’why they’re alive’ and ’what they want to do with their life’? Have they decided that they are here to have a ’good time’?
Think about it! Even if you come to the conclusion that you don’t know shit - at least you stop getting so irritated with other people. If you don’t know why and what you’re doing - no one can get in your way. There’s nothing to get in the way of. So at least you become modest. It’s your choice.
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People can spend their whole life drifting and still continue to struggle with those that appear to get in their way. How can you not get in the way of something that is drifting? Something that is drifting bumps into everything.

Related Subjects: Drifting
taken from: Priorities

(I want to know where I stand... relative to what I think is important... as close as I can get... because if I can’t do that... I really can’t take myself seriously. I want to get closer to that! Fuck the problems... maybe all my problems are due to the fact that I didn’t know what’s really important to me... and if I don’t know... then everything I bump into in the world has little relevance!)
You might find out that all your problems were, in fact, because you weren’t doing shit with the energy that you have - because you were not clear about what was important to you. You were drifting. All your problems were because you were drifting!
A human being can actually ask such questions. Even if your answer is ’I don’t know’ - you’ve already got a certain kind ofstability in that place. It’s called humility!
Stability in humility.

 
HUMILITY CANNOT BE ASSUMED - IT CAN ONLY RESULT FROM SEEING THE TRUTH!

Related Subjects: Drifting, Humanity
taken from: Bionic-Man

People know they’re stuck. But in order to get un-stuck, you have to understand exactly what it is that you are stuck in! It’s within your own psychology, for sure - but it is also in your environment.
To gain a true perspective you must come out of your dream world. It has been suggested that you ’put your own picture together’. But, clarity can only develop on the foundation of self-remembering! Until you are ’in existence’, all the rest is just bla bla.

Related Subjects: Dream world, Self Remembering

Many people half-consciously assume that if they do 'good' for their family, associates or some aspect of humanity, 'God', or people that they have demonstrated in front of will 're-pay' their efforts.

Related Subjects: Doing 'good'

Why are you doing what you are doing?
Because you 'have to'?
Do you 'have to' in order to GET SOMETHING, or merely to 'stay out of trouble'?

Related Subjects: Doing

No matter how you twist and turn it, it brings us back to the Work. When you attempt to 'do the Work' even somewhat awkwardly, at least you're not in your usual mechanics. Work requires a conscious effort. And, in order to make that kind of effort you must be, to some degree, awake. When you're only in the mechanics it's all just happening and nothing clear can be gained. YOU were not there to gain, and retain, in Understanding. 

To do something that has meaning to you, to experiment intelligently, to ponder, to try something that you think would be useful in real terms requires conscious-effort. For that, you have to be present.

Related Subjects: Doing, The Work

What can you do other than come from the very best you've got, and realize your limitations? You can only reach that point by fully using what you've got. Use your best as if there's no tomorrow. You still need explanations? Someone has to tell you that you're living in hell? There's no time for delay.

Related Subjects: Doing
taken from: Respond Ability

What a person is capable of doing or responding to on the outside is relative to where and what they are inside.

Related Subjects: Doing

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