Guideline 27.2
It is essential to identify the significance of what we do, the core meanings of the data we use, the meaning of our participation in events, and to watch out for hidden obstacles.
It is essential to identify the significance of what we do, the core meanings of the data we use, the meaning of our participation in events, and to watch out for hidden obstacles.
The skill of comparison is practiced through juxtaposing similarities, differences, relationships, constituent parts, and sequence.
2. The imposed limitations and dependencies reside within our patterns of thought and established ways of life. These patterns impose a framework upon our intentions and goals.
Love is an inherent urge. This urge has been turned into a goal, which leads to division.
36. The Resources at Our Disposal.This means directing our attention toward everything we possess—everything that is directly relevant to us, what is within us, and what surrounds us. This includes not only material objects but also people, our capabilities, our skills, and the vital things we remember. Because events will constantly emerge to divert us from our goal, we must perpetually remind ourselves of that goal and exert our will to return to it. By default, most of us invest our energy into pretending to be someone else, meddling in the affairs of others, and following others.
9. The destruction of our ability to communicate aims to annihilate our desire for connection, keeping us divided from others. When communicating with others, divergences in the meanings of words and thoughts, differing understandings of the same thing, and differences in our goals and intentions – or their concealment – create misunderstandings, subsequently leading to a fear of communication.
If you feel that something is wrong, and if you doubt the claims that love, happiness, and freedom are impossible, perhaps it is time to deepen your doubts. 1. Life without meaningful intentions and goals, and with imposed limitations and dependencies, is an embedded state that we have come to perceive as personal.
11. Ready-made answers and solutions are essentially prejudices that activate instantaneously upon the occurrence of an event. We perceive them as our own thoughts without the slightest doubt. They constitute obstacles that redirect our attention through established mental (logical) associations toward specific, pre-determined mental content.
Simplicity in relationships, the establishing of one’s own essence, and the entering into love determine the understanding of the mechanisms of imposed limitations.
31. Personality, environment, the order of consequences, and the obstacles from circumstances are the preliminary outlines for our life here. These same factors shape our way of life, and they may prove to be obstacles to our own intentions.