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How to regain your control?

By examining your thinking and correcting it. Develop the habit of honest introspection by asking yourself, “Wherein did I cause this to happen to me?” and holding it until the thought that caused the happening comes out of the subconscious into the conscious plane. Then you recognize your mastership that you caused that pleasant or unpleasant experience to happen to you. The more you will do this, the easier it becomes and the more able you become, until finally, you recognize that you were always the master. Q: Then I, myself, am my own block, and other people do not influence me. Lester: Yes. It's not what other people say; if you follow their thinking it's because you want to. Q: Yes, because I think they know more than I do. Lester: I say you know everything. You've got to accept this as a premise at least, if you want to grow. Q: Well, I can accept that a part of me knows everything, but that part of me does not appear to be operating, because my world out there is not in good shape. Lester: It does not appear to be operating? You don't operate that part of you? That is the way you're talking! No, you operate it. You choose not to use your omniscience, your basic nature. You choose to be ignorant of your omniscience by saying, “I am a limited mind-body.” That's your choice. When you choose to identify with your real Self, then you'll see that you always were omniscient, are right now, and always will be; and you'll stop foolishly saying you're not. Q: You mean I can actually make that choice? Lester: Yes, not only you can, someday you will. When you get tired enough of all this limitation you have set up for yourself, then you'll make that choice. Who thinks all your thoughts? You do! It's all your doing. What we accept is what we choose to accept. It's always our choice. It is now our choice to be extremely limited bodies. And when you don't accept your responsibility for that, you have no possibility of getting out of that extreme limitation. Q: I say I want to get out of that limitation and think I want to get out of that limitation and then when certain things happen I just don't get out; I'm right there in that limitation. Lester: What you need to do is not to say it, but want it so strongly that you override the contrary unconscious habits and do it!

━ Keys to the Ultimate Freedom, Lester Levenson

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" this sense of egoity is very basic, and very important. It’s the start of all trouble, and letting go of it is the elimination of all trouble. It’s the sense of not being the All, of not being that God which we are. And if you’re not the All, there’s something missing and you’re trying to get it. First a hundred dollars, then a thousand, then a million, and a billion, then the Earth, then the moon, then the solar system, then the galaxy—until you wake up the the fact that everything you’re trying to get, you are. And once you see that, there’s nothing to be gotten anymore: you are It. It’s really a joke when you see the overall picture of how people struggle to get tiny bits of what they are. (ego pleasures)" --Lester Levenson

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Lester Levenson, the ultimate truth: short version. pg 1

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Action is now.

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Focus your attention on the NOW and tell me what problem you have at this moment. I am not getting any answer because it is impossible to have a problem when your attention is fully in the Now. A situation needs to be dealt with or accepted. The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.  This is normal, and it is insane. When you create a problem, you create pain.  All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: No matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself.  I will create no more problems. – Eckhart Tolle

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Q: Do you agree with Jung's collective unconscious theory?

Lester: I only agree with Truth. And this is one thing I emphasize, truth is the only authority for truth. Accept nothing until you can prove it out. Don't even accept what I say, no matter how much I speak as though I know. If it doesn’t fit into your knowingness at present, you can accept it for checking. But only that which you can prove out for yourself, only that should you accept. This is basically important. IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PROVE ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE FOR YOURSELF. Otherwise it's hearsay to you. You must make this knowledge your knowledge.

Now, there's only one Truth, one Absolute Truth. So putting names to it doesn't mean anything. Whether so-and-so said it or I said it, doesn't mean anything. Is it true? Does it integrate into your understanding? That's the only thing that matters. That's the point wherein we are different. We try to make this very practical so that you can use this knowledge and move toward the total understanding as quickly as possible.

lester levenson, keys to the ultimate freedom, session 6.

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Why you're having trouble.

Refuse your old patterns of feeling and thinking. Leave your mind alone, go beyond it.

You are waiting at non-existent painted doors, which will never open. Don't wait, nothing will happen by waiting. There is only now.

Inquire who is causing trouble and to whom.

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Nisargadatta

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i only have 3 in queue ... writing block lol. i want to write big posts and post them when i like, so i think this blog might finally slow down! my other blog, however, has 100 in queue so i might speed that up. anyway PICTURE DUMP

most are from ada's google drive ...

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it is not necessary to get rid of thoughts, images or ideas; just cease deriving your sense of identity from them.

ー rupert spira

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What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace — and you do so now.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now.

Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

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No need to identify with what happened yesterday or may happen tomorrow. Stand upright simply as you are today.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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nisargardatta, i am that, ch.96.

Q: Unless I am told what to do and how to do it, I feel lost.

M: By all means do feel lost! As long as you feel competent and confident, reality is beyond your reach. Unless you accept inner adventure as a way of life, discovery will not come to you.

Q: Discovery of what?

M: Of the centre of your being, which is free of all directions, all means and ends.

Q: Be all, know all, have all?

M: Be nothing, know nothing, have nothing. This is the only life worth living, the only happiness worth having.

Q: I may admit that the goal is beyond my comprehension. Let me know the way at least.

M: You must find your own way. Unless you find it yourself it will not be your own way and will take you nowhere. Earnestly live your truth as you have found it -- act on the little you have understood. It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness -- your own or another's.

Q: I am afraid of mistakes. So many things I tried -- nothing came out of them.

M: You gave too little of yourself, you were merely curious, not earnest.

Q: I don't know any better.

M: At least that much you know. Knowing them to be superficial, give no value to your experiences, forget them as soon as they are over. Live a clean, selfless life, that is all.

Q: Is morality so important?

M: Don't cheat, don't hurt -- is it not important? Above all you need inner peace -- which demands harmony between the inner and the outer. Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.

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It takes more than faith. It takes knowledge. You start with faith, but you must convert it to knowledge. You must test it out, and then you know it.