If you want to employ some religious type notions in your awakening struggle, then forget the picture of some martyred human as having “died for your sins,” but rather consider that your conscious mind has saved you, and sacrificed itself by being stupid in your place.
Remorse over being asleep
is like taking medicine
after you’ve died.
The All Important, Speed Calibration:
A man’s past is created and re-created as fast as he has thoughts.
The best known ancient record of men wanting to establish a non-standard state of mind is contained in the idea of: “studying, and knowing yourself.” But, what is not as well known is exactly what aspect of man it is that he should be studying and knowing to achieve this goal.
A man who says that he understands what “being asleep” is, and knows how to “wake up,” has freeze dried a shadow and now worships it.
A person passionately clutching his present ideas makes himself so internally rigid as to be normal, and incapable of the acrobatics needed to awaken.
J.