Mind
An Interview – Some Positive Developments
This is a conversation about the book, the writer’s process, and his insights.
The questions are deliberate: they are asked from the level of ‘the initiate’. It is an early stage when one is seeking a pre-supposed gratification from wisdom, such as ‘How can it make me more money? Be more attractive? Seduce more partners?’ Some of the most profound advice is lost on ears because the seeker is only looking for pre-defined answers, thus focusing on what they want and missing what they are getting. Are we failing to get answers because our questions are flawed?
This conversation speaks to those who may realise that it is indeed the question that needs re-framing.
What the bleep do we (k)now?
We create our reality. The world is only potential possibilities that we actively collapse into our own point of view. We are the observer and the observation. There is nothing external to us—only our consciousness that defines our reality. We only know what we know. Our only limitations are bound by our own thinking patterns. [...]
Satisfaction
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” like the Rolling Stones used to sing. Still we are after the pleasures of life endlessly. In a way it’s funny that we are after the image in our mind we have perceived in the past. We got satisfaction from an occurrence and now we cannot get it back. We [...]
Motives
It is easy to act outright. It takes more nerve and courage to question first and evaluate the motives of one’s actions. And it’s almost extreme to make up one’s main after all those steps and being able to act rationally against one’s first hunch… Yesterday I had a good conversation about ownership. These days [...]