Sublime

everything you are perceiving, right now, including that fabricated sense of a “center” of consciousness, is an output of your mind

If I were to reduce this book and my teachings to their essence, I would say it all comes down to nothing more than this: Think for yourself and figure out what’s true. That’s it. Ask yourself what’s true until you know.

As you practice within the conscious context of experience, you will learn that there is something (awareness) that is more fundamental about who and what you are than any ideas about yourself. Awareness is the only thing that does not come and go even as your thoughts, experiences, and perceptions continually change.

“What do you do? Have Scotty beam you out?” “I used the power of thought. I let my conscious mind, subconscious mind and super conscious mind know that getting out of prison was what I wanted… then I released it.” “That’s it?” “It’s pretty much that simple. Let the universe know what will make you happy and it will provide it.” “When did you develo

“Power, prestige, wealth, adulation, six pack abs, sure, whatever defines us. However we describe ourselves, think of ourselves, project ourselves. Every feature, trait, characteristic, feeling, belief, opinion. All of it. Self-ness.” “It’s all just, like… worthless? Is that what you’re saying? Like… a person is just a costume?” “A costume, yes. Wo

notre bonheur dépend de ce que nous sommes, de notre individualité, tandis qu’on ne tient compte le plus souvent que de ce que nous avons ou de ce que nous représentons.

Your psyche is like a computer program running in your mind based on your samskaras. It’s in there talking to you about things that happened before, what you wish would happen now, and what you hope does or doesn’t happen tomorrow. You’ve actually created an alternate reality inside your mind that is very complex.