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My Notes
Very well, when you renounce something, you’re stuck to it forever. When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power.
Our Illusions About Others
Expect the worst, you’re dealing with selfish people.
They’re asleep like you. And what do you think they are going to seek? Their own self-interest, exactly like you. No difference.
You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone.
Self-Observation
What’s the most important thing of all? It’s called self-observation. No one can help you there.
It means to watch everything in you and around you as far as possible and watch it as if it were happening to someone else. It means that you do not personalize what is happening to you.
The reason you suffer from depression and your anxieties is that you identify with them. You are not your depression.
Awareness Without Evaluating Everything
There’s nothing so delightful as being aware.
The unaware life is not worth living.
Most people don’t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts – generally somebody else’s – mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
Cut out all the judgments and simply observe, watch. You’ll make great discoveries. These discoveries will change you.