If you can't do great things...

JGeropoulas

JGeropoulas

The Living Force
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Session October 10, 2015

Q: (L) So it's accumulation of daily steps, daily choices, daily activities?

A: Yes and it would be extremely beneficial if more of your members learned and practiced this.

Q: (L) Can you be more specific about that?

A: For those who find themselves in a life situation that is less than desirable or optimal, small daily acts that declare their affinity for another reality will accumulate and trigger a phase transition.

Q: (L) Well, okay... You've said steps, daily steps. You don't like the reality that you're in so you look around yourself and you see things about your reality that you don't like... I mean, what kind of first daily steps can you take? If you're in a reality that's freaking controlling you and everything around you, how can you take steps? So many people are in situations where they can't even do that sort of thing. What kind of steps can people take at the most basic level?

A: Changing the mode of self-presentation and self-representation is the most basic.

Q: (Galatea) So like, changing habits?

A: Yes

Q: (Galatea) Changes in lifestyle here and there.

(L) Yeah, changes in your lifestyle?

(Perceval) Changes in your mode of self-presentation is kind of like what you identify with, ya know? It gets into what we were just talking about earlier. If a person is wearing clothes that identify him with a certain aspect of common popular culture, then if you are at odds with the world at large because of the insanity and suffering, that would be one of the first things to change: you identification with “popular culture”.

(L) So in other words, if you are not at home in the world the way it is and the way it has grown and the way it has developed, you need to put yourself into a different world NOW with small changes.

(Perceval) And at least stop identifying with this one. All the aspects that popular culture today pushes on people as means to identify with the reality of this world and what makes it tick - which is all kind of depraved and dysfunctional... And people absorb that and they start wearing clothes, and speaking differently, and that's all nothing but identifying with a manufactured aspect of this world and culture.

(L) Hairdos, clothing...

(Perceval) Anything.

(L) If you want to be part of a completely different world... In a sense, it's kinda like some of these people that belong to these organizations that like medieval stuff. So, they all get dressed up, and they have meetings, they have mock battles or whatever.

(Perceval) If there's enough bleedthrough, those people are gonna find themselves living 400 years ago! [laughter]

(L) And then dress: the whole Gothic thing, painting their nails black, and that identifies them with that “Goth” reality, so that's the timeline that they'll go into...

(Galatea) So basically, be the change that you want to see.

(L) Yeah. Be the change you want to see. I guess begin to model yourself on the people that you want to be LIKE or be WITH.
 
Let me therefore quote two quotes from Saint Augustine:

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

These quotes came to my mind somehow in connection with your post, so I decided to share them.
 
And many times the "programming" that we have causes us to immediately feel bad, with a sense of remorse about what we have done.

Knowledge is what passes over sensation. You know that what you have done is what, according to your knowledge, is a fair "action" or, shall we say, "appropriate" to the situation.

It's amazing when you get it.

You find yourself marveling at how strong the programming is.

Being "yourself" is difficult, but when it is achieved from time to time, it is something amazing.
 
Thank you @JGeropoulas for sharing that part of the transcription so essential in everyday life.

On a social level, it is the resistance to not following trends, fashions or cultures that work to divide and dumb down people just for being part of a social group and increasing the false image of oneself. It reminds me of the silly fights I used to observe between rockers and punketos. No one knew each other, they just knew that they should hate each other and beat each other up because that was the trend and the culture demanded it according to their gods printed on acetate record covers. Everyone wants and believes they are "different".
 
I think 4 things come into play

  • Being resolute enough to not be deathly afraid of the consequences of going against the grain e.g. ridicule
  • Being wise enough to know when you should listen and to who
  • Being courageous enough to at least try
  • Being stubborn enough to persist and adjust as necessary
For all these you need to be in the field of play as a minimum:

 
Just by reading SOTT or the forum and applying knowledge, you start developing a desire for something more than the life as it is usually lived. When you see the unnecessary suffering that people fall into thanks to inertia and refusal to face reality, one is naturally inclined not to follow in lockstep since it leads to a cliff.

A few quotes from Thoreau's Walden that are somewhat related to the session above:
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

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It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.

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There is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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I think it can be quite inspiring in some situations:


It is not even about whether these stories are slightly coloured here, but about the message itself. Moreover, it does not necessarily mean that we achieve complete failure. Sometimes it takes little for us to stop wanting to do anything. However, even if you fail completely, you can try again.

With each successive rise, your inner strength grows. You don't really need anyone to assure you that you can do great things. It is enough for you to be convinced of it yourself, even against the words of those whose words matter most to you. They are not responsible for achieving your dreams. You alone are responsible for this.

If you believe that you cannot achieve something, then it will most likely become true. A lot depends on your deep inner beliefs. If someone takes your strength in any measure, rise so high that he cannot do it again. Do not argue, do not fight for your rights. Just show love and do what is yours.
 
Thanks for this, a good reminder to keep on keeping on and never give up. Keep putting in the effort and have absoluate faith that in the end with knowledge applied and the willingness to change, the universe will respond. Once we are willing to put the work in, its amazing what we can achieve. Step by step into a new reality ❤

Wandering Star said:
Being "yourself" is difficult, but when it is achieved from time to time, it is something amazing.
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Real freedom 🙂
 
Cleopatre VII said:
Sometimes, however, it seems to me that even in front of ourselves, we cannot usually be ourselves.
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The question is, who do you define as yourself as and is this definition constant from situation to situation? I think a huge part of how we see ourselves is relative to an external situation. The concept of who you are isn't fixed but changes and I'm thinking in 2 main directions

  • From situation to situation it undergoes changes depending on how you are feeling about the situation and how this is making you react or act outwardly
  • Over time your experiences, accumulated years and lessons also lead to deep rooted changes that take hold slowly but surely
I think when someone is judging themselve they need to remain aware of what they are judging themselve against. You can then at least be conscious of the thing you are aspiring to and under what conditions that thing becomes a "thing" e.g. if you want to be more confident, surely there are situations you display confidence with no problems (for example, say talking to your child, best friend, parent etc) and so it's not really that you lack confidence in all situations.🤷 So why is it there in certain situations and not others? (Just an example!)

I think this sort of observations can lead to some useful insights about yourself.
 
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