Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.