Life Matters - E.C.Nemeth (most inspirational books of all time .txt) 📗

Reality is a journey through probabilities by an entity of infinite power and imagination. You are a conglomeration of probable events, triangulated and expressed by this entity. So too, are you on a journey through probabilities and possessed of infinite power and imagination. Therefore you create your reality.
If a list was made of All There Is, in our terms it would be far shorter than a list of All There Is Not. There seems to be a whole lot more things that are not than things that are. But once a list of All There Is Not is composed what would you have? A list, a something, Is! So once the list exists the things that are not do too. And it is more than just a curious mental effect. All thoughts are creative. Being begets life. And since your being is alive, it can be said that life begets life.
All There Is includes everything there is and everything that could be thought of or imagined in any way at any time. And all of it exists simultaneously! This ensures that all possible probabilities are accessible at all times. That is why you create your reality - Because there is no other criteria for experience than your desire for it. What that desire is based on and what consequent experience is encountered is always your own choice. Therefore, you create your reality.
Since you deny what you are you must project most of your power and imagination outward, onto those things “out there” in the environment. In this way the world and the fates become responsible for your experience. The little of your true power you keep for yourself then becomes inadequate, in one form or another, and leaves large portions of your experience outside your ability to control or to even be aware of.
In this scenario a great sense of futility or an exuberance of optimism in the future becomes inevitable. In some way the individual will suffer a sense of loss or disconnection and will not be able to ascribe it a cause. It could surface as severe nervousness or despondency, but it could also appear as any number of other stress related symptoms, usually of a bi-polar nature. This is because the framework of the experience is couched in terms of dualism. The Self is denied in favor of a little self and a whole world is created to prove the little self is real. Yet, a numbness, a seeming inability to feel strong emotions, or get motivated past a certain degree could also manifest itself in response to the stress of supporting a belief system based on denial and out of line with the truth.
It is this denial that requires the introduction of the idea that All is, “All There Is and All There Is Not”. If the Self that is All There Is thinks it is a little self then it must believe it is All There Is Not. But the idea of not existing cannot be upheld by what obviously exists. So the idea of the universe springs into existence to compensate for this discrepancy. Now, the little self and the huge universe together add up to all there is. Except in this construction, God has no room to exist. So lip service must be given to the idea of a Supreme Creator yet all the while God’s hand can never be “seen” directly by the little self, whose existence requires the non-existence of God. Once belief in the little self is established the truth becomes invisible and cannot be seen by the little self.
In mathematical terms:
A = B + C,
where A is All
B is the little self
and C is the universe.
Stated grammatically: There is only God or there is the little self and the universe. Which means there is unity or there is separation. Yet the symbol of separation, the word itself, is a statement of what's held in common by all separate phenomena. Namely, that they are separate. And that is a unifying principle. So, in fact there must always be unity and there cannot ever be separation. This is logically true at least in terms of absolutes.
Local ambiguities can occur, however.
Ignorance is bliss?
There is a conspiracy operating behind the scenes of your life events. Just as science has discovered that the average human brain uses only 10 - 15% of its capacity, only 10 - 15% of the total available reality can be experienced. And of this portion of reality that it is possible to choose from only 10 - 15% is actually experienced. What that means is that the average human is conscious of 1 - 2.25% of reality. These numbers are not official, it is just a rough calculation to be sure, but it does point to the obvious. We understand virtually nothing about reality because there is so much more of it left to explore.
WE DON’T KNOW.
When we say we do is when we set up local ambiguities. We create our realities based on the false assumption of logical authority. We do not know. By pretending we do we have set up a situation where we see only what agrees with our so-called logic. But can an intelligence that perceives less than 3% of reality claim to have the logical authority to know anything? Do you think you are able to judge the little you see as this way or that way tied to reality, which you can’t see at all?
The events of your life seem random, to be judged good or bad as your experience dictates. What reality throws at you seems to be haphazard and chaotic. It seems to be a matter of luck whether your next experience is good or bad.
Perhaps you’ve seen some evidence that doesn’t seem to fit in with your established idea of reality. Maybe some experiences were either so amazingly good or horribly bad that, at least for a little while, it seemed like it wasn’t real. The shock of such a situation eventually fades and normal reality returns. Yet those moments are never forgotten. They reside deep inside your mind, hidden, covered up, and out of sight. They do not fit in with your established sense of reality and the mind has ignored the need to incorporate their existence. This causes a sense of uneasiness, instability and confusion. And so the sense of unrest lies buried deep within the psyche and it becomes the foundation of your experience. You are then basing your experience upon fear.
Just as life begets life, like begets like. So, experience based on fear draws to it more experiences of a fear-based nature. That is logical. It must, then, now be perfectly obvious that, if not each and every particular event, the nature of experience at least in general terms is interpreted by the individual. That means that you create, at least in general terms, your reality.
Ignorance is not bliss, however. If it were the ignorant would be safe from fear-based experience. Instead, those ignorant of the notion that like begets like are doomed to continue drawing more fear-based experience into their lives. And that is only logical.
Yet logic can only take you so far.
Matters of the heart
The mind interprets what the heart feels and the heart feels what the mind interprets. This realization requires an entirely different value system and approach to what is experienced. The basis of this new approach is in part the acceptance that you do not know. The other part is the understanding that if it can be known it already is. Together, the understanding that you do not know and if it can be known it is, forms a new value system.
This new value system is based on the understanding that the part about what can be known is means there is an Intelligence that knows everything. The new value system is based on All, The Source. Oddly, that’s the easy part.
The hard part is the you don’t know part. That is because it is the realm of the heart that is, in this world, suppressed and it is the heart that knows you don’t know. Feelings are suspect. That is an attitude that has been cultivated by humanity for a very long time. The acceptance of the idea that you don’t know is difficult to grasp because it is a feeling void of words. In a way it is above and beyond words. It is what you really know because it is your source.
The mind and the heart are inseparable. Ideally, the mind holds what you need to know at any given moment and your heart always holds all there is to know. This is a difficult concept to master because there are two intermediary concepts that need to be understood first. One is consciousness and the other is the body/spirit connection. These two concepts overlap and intertwine so they are hard to unravel, much like the double-stranded helix of DNA. In fact, DNA is the physical representation of these two concepts. DNA is the All There Is/All There Is Not of physicality, the heart and mind of existence.
The Great Secret
What is consciousness?
The short answer is that consciousness is life. The definition of life must be expanded, however, to allow this understanding to percolate through the logical filters of the human mind. Logical filters are beliefs. They are the beliefs of the individual. As was stated earlier, only those concepts in line with the accepted parameters of the individual's beliefs will be considered logical in the first place. So, we must backtrack and realign the accepted parameters of subjective reality so that the individual can understand the gap between what is believed and what is true.
The basic tenet of contemporary philosophy is that existence is universal. All this means is that the world outside the physical body of the individual can be trusted to be real and so to be part of reality. The outside world can then be depended on to provide answers on the nature of reality. This stance seemed to unify the duality, the seemingly contradictory information of the individual's internal experience and that of the outside world. Yet what it really does is deny one half of reality in favor of the other half. For the half denied is experiential consciousness - which is subjective reality. Objective reality is given validity while subjective reality is deemed untrustworthy. This logical stance requires that consciousness be a mere oddity, a freak accident, a million to one shot, and not a necessary part of universal reality. It means that even if all life was extinguished in the universe that the universe and inanimate, or dead, matter would continue to exist.
A philosophy based on existence as universal dooms the individual to a puny lifetime filled with uncertainty, a constant searching for truth in the one place it never is and to never look where the answers could be found. For the truth lies within.
It is not solely existence that is universal - consciousness is universal as well. As a matter of fact, existence is a by-product of consciousness. Here’s how it works...
Consciousness is universal. It is One, it is All There Is. The individual is part of the Whole of consciousness. The individual is created. It is the focus of the Whole on the parts. The individual finds focus in two directions simultaneously: within and without. Within is the Whole. Without is the Whole divided into its parts, less the individual. Yet the Whole is infinitely more than the sum of its parts, less you. For you are Whole. You are the Holoid of the Whole. You are an aspect, a facet of the Whole, intrinsically important and