Life

Again, we have this whole business of ’life’, with all its craziness and demands. It has more demands on you than it has on a ten year old, and even more on your parents who are carrying considerably more pieces of undigested ’impressions’ - sometimes called ’shit’.
The point, if I can hold to it, is to ’think’, with whatever you’ve got! To think of what? Yourself, people generally, people you know, the world. You have to think about ’life’, and about ’being’. You must make the effort to remember yourself, because, unless you do, you don’t even know who is doing the thinking! Can you conceive of any starting-point, other than self-study?

The passage of time means everything and the passage of time means nothing. Yes and no! Every speculation in time is a dream with its element of hope and the inevitable fear that the hope will not materialize. Life as we generally know it is an interaction of the dreams of 'concerned' people.

Here is where it gets really serious. The Work says: ’Life cannot be explained in terms of itself’! What does that mean? If you look at the average person’s life, with a long enough view, it doesn’t make any sense at all. People think, calculate, struggle, move, build, ’grow’ children, start countries, fight wars - all within so much pain and confusion!
Those struggles for comfort and safety simply don’t go anywhere. Happiness and satisfaction cannot flower at that ’level of being’ - lived without any reference to what is ’larger than life’!