I Think That I Feel An Indignation

The Open Mode Is A Mood In Which Curiosity For Its Own Sake Can Operate, Because We're Not Under Pressure To Get A Specific Thing Done Properly. We Can Play.

We All Operate In Two Contrasting Modes, Which Might Be Called Open And Closed. The Open Mode Is More Relaxed, More Receptive, More Exploratory, More Democratic, More Playful And More Humorous. The Closed Mode Is The Tighter, More Rigid, More Hierarchical, More Tunnel-visioned. Most People, Unfortunately Spend Most Of Their Time In The Closed Mode.

The Real Religion Is About The Understanding That If We Can Only Still Our Egos For A Few Seconds, We Might Have A Chance Of Experiencing Something That Is Divine In Nature. But In Order To Do That, We Have To Slice Away At Our Egos And Try To Get Them Down To A Manageable Size, And Then Still Work Some Practiced Light Meditation. So Real Religion Is About Reducing Our Egos, Whereas All The Churches Are Interested In Is Egotistical Activities, Like Getting As Many Members And Raising As Much Money And Becoming As Important And High-profile And Influential As Possible.

Years Ago We Would Have Been Burned For This. Now What I Am Suggesting Is That We've Advanced.

A Man Will Give Up Almost Anything Except His Suffering.