What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.
It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.