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Actually, everything I'm going to write about has long been written and said many times in various forms. I won't say anything new for the world. But all of this is new to me. No, not that we can throw an order into the Universe and it will return as reality. What's new to me in this process is the amazing, unfamiliar sensation of realization at some deep level of how it actually works.
Jack married Lisa and adopted her two boys from her first marriage. He moved her to a big, beautiful city where he had a great job, a stable income, a large, bright apartment, and everything else needed for a happy family life. Lisa didn’t need to work, but she still did, to avoid getting bored.
Motivation is an internal push. It works most effectively when the momentum from the initial push is still very strong.
There is something mystical about waking up in the evening after a short daytime nap: it feels as though part of the consciousness is still in a dream, and the two realities—the conscious and the dream—are so close that there's almost a physical sensation of their boundaries being blurred, one flowing into the other, like the ingredients of a Bloody Mary cocktail mixing together.
Osho once elaborated quite well in one of his books (and it's known that most, if not all, of his books are nothing but transcripts of his speeches) about how "The giver should be grateful." He gave an example of a rich man who brought a bag of money to some guru.
I can easily look at myself from the outside and see a completely different person. Suddenly, I see myself the way others might see me—with all my traits, not always the ones that would easily be liked by the majority.
I'm not talking about wearing pants backward or sleeping upside down. I'm talking about the discomfort within. Since growth is always associated with stepping out of the familiar cozy 'comfort zone', in order to grow, you need to always (or at least most of the time, outside of sleep) feel the challenge.
What is a revolution? It is the rebellion of a new regime against the old, aimed at reaching a new level. Something new is being born, but it is still subject to the “old” conditions. In order to break this vicious cycle and free itself from the influence, the “new” must rebel, reaching a level of intensity at which the old will either fall away by itself or burn in the fire of terror...
It's a bit strange how the meaning of the well-known phrase 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' has been so twisted… Well, you can't possibly interpret it so literally! The essence of it is not that if you have good intentions, you'll inevitably end up in hell… And it's certainly not about how every good intention harbors a bunch of bad ones…
I only now realize that I’ve probably wanted to wake up to the sound of ocean waves near my home my whole life... Actually, it’s only now, when I began imagining the most beautiful day of my life, that I realized I would like it to start exactly like this – with the quiet sound of beautiful waves shimmering in the sun.