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- #dotsconnected from Books/Meditations and Books/The Book Of Mirdad - #+BEGIN_QUOTE You take things you don’t control and define them as “good” or “bad.” And so of course when the “bad” things happen, or the “good” ones don’t, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible—or those you decide to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply those criteria. If we limited “good” and “bad” to our own actions, we’d have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies. - @Marcus Auerelius #+END_QUOTE - - #+BEGIN_QUOTE By merely thinking I you cause a sea of thoughts to heave within your heads. That sea is the creation of your I which is at once the thinker and the thought. If you have thoughts that sting, or stab, or claw, know that the I in you alone endowed them with sting and tusk and claw. Mirdad would have you know as well that that which can endow can also disendow. By merely feeling I you tap a well of feelings in your hearts. That well is the creation of your I which is at once the feeler and the felt. ==If there be some hobgoblins in your universe, know that the I in you alone has brought them into being.== As the creator, so is the creation. Can anyone overcreate himself? Or anyone undercreate himself? Himself alone – no more, no less – does the creator procreate. #+END_QUOTE - More from Mirdad - - #+BEGIN_QUOTE A magic wand is I. Yet can the wand give birth to naught save what’s in the magician. As is the magician, so are the products of his wand. *sid - [how are we to confuse the wand with magic]* Yours is a world divided ’gainst itself, because the I in you is so divided. And you, rather than joy in their happy union, begird yourselves anew for the fruitless labour of separating the inseparable. Rather than bind the cleavage in the I, you whittle away your life hoping to make thereof a wedge to drive between what you believe to be your I and what you imagine other than your I. #+END_QUOTE - #+BEGIN_QUOTE The Primal Consciousness – The Word – The Spirit of Understanding – behold, O monks, THE TRINITY OF BEING, The Three which are One, The One which is Three, co-equal, co-extensive, co-eternal; self-balancing, self-knowing, self-fulfilling, Never increasing, nor decreasing. Ever at peace. Ever the same. That is, O monks, THE PERFECT BALANCE. Man, too, therefore, is such an holy triune; a consciousness, a word, an understanding. Man, too, is a creator like his God. His I is his creation. Why is he not so balanced as his God? #+END_QUOTE - #+BEGIN_QUOTE MAN is a god in swaddling-bands. And all because he knows not yet the meaning of his I which is to him the swaddling-bands as well as the babe therein enswaddled. #+END_QUOTE