Month: May 2021

“It is difficult to get a person to understand their world, when their world depends on their not understanding it.” This quote above is perhaps the reason that I, after decades of studying, still simply refuse to understand simple concepts. No matter how simple and obvious they may be, the fact that their acceptance collapses our world view is enough to make them suicide to accept. Except, if they are true, it is suicide not to accept them and we willingly acknowledge that we will not escape this world alive. Might there be another way? Here are few paraphrased quotations below, from ACIM, Krishnamurti, or Eckhardt Tolle. I believe all are essentially saying the same thing in different words. These are spiritual foundations, and without their acceptance we cannot go far. The world is in our mind. This sounds like philosophical conjecture, but let’s set that aside and consider that it is a truth so fundamental and obvious that it’s acceptance would truly be a thought reversal. Paraphrased from ACIM chapter 12 section 3, ‘The investment in Reality’: ‘We always perceive this world as outside ourselves, for this is crucial to our adjustment. We do not realize that we make this world, for their is no world outside of ourselves. We have projected outward what is antagonistic to what is inward, and therefore we would have to perceive the world this way. This is why we must realize that our hatred is in our mind, and not outside of it before get can […]