… The ‘exceptional life’ becomes so by virtue of context and meaning whereby choice sets up a hierarchy of values that motivates all activities. The difference between the ordinary and the exceptional life is primarily one of context. To value love above gain is already such a major shift of attitude that it transforms life.
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Illusion and Positionality
Q: What, then is illusion that we hear about so much?
A: The entire perceptual illusion that the ego claims to be reality is completely and totally the product of positionality. This is very important to unravel and understand in one’s own experiential awareness. If you observe carefully, you will note that at the time the mind is taking a position, that position stems from choice, training, desire, emotion, or political or religious viewpoint. From that positionality stem all the pointless sacrifice and sufferings of the world.
Curiosity with Discernment
Q: Is curiosity then an advantage to the spiritual seeker?
A: With humility, it is a useful servant. Without discernment, however, it can lead to serious pitfalls. Curiosity can lead the naïve seeker into blind alleys and useless distractions as well as snares and serious, painful traps. This is where a true teacher is necessary. Again, humility means acceptance of the indisputable fact that cannot be repeated too often: The human mind is incapable of discerning truth from falsehood. Were this not so, there would have been no wars in history, no social problems, and no ignorance or poverty. Everyone would be enlightened, and the consciousness level of mankind would not have remained at 190 century after century.
Life Itself is Not Subject to Death
It is essential to understand that the nonphysical spiritual reality cannot be understood in terms of ordinary intellectualization or reason. The linear and the nonlinear arise from different paradigms and different contexts. … Both the heartbeat and the brain waves are merely the consequences of the presence of life: they are not life itself, which is intangible.
… Life itself is not subject to death. … The human imagination assumes, of course, that it goes ‘elsewhere’. In Reality, there is no ‘elsewhere’. Outside time, location, and temporality, there is neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’; there is neither ‘now’ nor ‘then’.
The Presence
The Presence is a continuum that completely occupies what had appeared previously to ordinary perception as vacant, empty space.
