Seeing more than before: I have driven this road to Arizona and back so many times.  Is it possible for me to see a view I have not seen? a tree I did not notice before? a house?  If I even think I have seen everything, that renders my brain incapable of seeing more than I did before.

That is an awesome power of the brain. That is a power to be respected and taken seriously.

 

 

The brain alone, by a command from you, can render you incapable of seeing more than you did before.  These commands can be given purely randomly and out of an unconscious laziness.

I am bored with this trip. It is always the same.

 

But a mind so instructed will be faithful in the execution of such a straightforward command. You will not see anything new on the trip.

 

 

Your life is also a trip. Have you ever known people who never changed?  They are angry about the same thing they were 30 years ago.  Somewhere on their journey they made an unconscious decision, and gave their mind a program which it faithfully runs.

 

 

I always get the short end of the stick.

You have to look out for yourself first.

Some kinds of people are better than others.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

 

When people have absorbed these meta-messages, they become as travelers who think they have seen every twist and turn of the road, and whose minds now cannot render anything different.  There may be scenes of extraordinary loveliness and power, but their minds have been instructed not to see them.

 

 

Thus do you create your experience.

 

Just never stop creating it. Many people create their experience once, a long time ago. They made decisions about experience, and then continue to have the exact same experiences endlessly. This only confirms the truth of their original program.

 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

Hamlet, II, ii

 

You do not have to live by the old programs. Every minute you are alive and awake, you can choose new ones. What power is this!