>From the Atrocityville airport take My Lai boulevard 2 miles until you

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> Tang Huyen wrote:

>> Dave K wrote:
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>>> I have been doing a lot of reading and studying which...

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> Tang Huyen wrote:

>> Dave K wrote:
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>>> I have been doing a lot of reading and studying which...

> Tang Huyen wrote:
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>> Robert Epstein wrote:
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>>>A teacher of mine said that you can't necessarily create change
>>>immediately, but if you work at something consistently now, it will show
>>>up in the system at a later date. The trick is not to be fooled by the
>>>lack of evidence, but to keep going in the direction you've chosen.

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>> That position has to be understood with some possible
>> self-interest from your teacher, in that if what he teaches
>> doesn't work for his students, he'll justify it by saying
>> something like: "Keep on, it will work in the end, and if
>> you stop early, it's your fault." It's like the magician who,
>> when informed that what he has been paid to do has
>> been ineffective, says in reply: "You didn't pay enough, ...

> In many minds today there exists this error:
>
> Of identifying as reality what is in fact an adaptation to reality,
> while ignoring all else that reality is.
>
> What am I talking about? In the words of one poster, "Reality is paying
> one's bills." The issue of paying or not paying of bills aside, what
> truly is reality?
>
> Reality is the Sun that is the giver of all life on earth. Reality is
> the planet on which we live. Reality is all that exists in nature and
> in humanity. So how can it be identified so narrowly with something
> that is simply an adaptation, and one out of many that has existed in
> history?
>
> This is not a rightful attitude, nor is it an innocent one. Inability
> to see beyond the adaptation leads people to make hideous errors. It
> leads them, in effect, to discount all else that is reality besides
> their adaptation. Thus, it leads people who make this error to run ...