
And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of.

And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. “Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else.

“The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.” “Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.” Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.” “There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.” “Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. “We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
