MORE REGARDING LIFE SAYING TO YOUR MIND: “HEY, LOOK OVER HERE AT THIS!” WITHOUT IT EVER POINTING OUT TO YOU THAT WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY POINTING TO WHEN IT SAYS THAT IS YOUR MIND.
If you do not come to the personal realization of the above, not only will you stay forever confused-about, and annoyed-with other people, (which is too pedestrian to be of note), but you will, (more importantly), have a similar attitude toward what seems, (to cow eyes), to be yourself. A sufficiently interested man can be led to see that when ordinary men talk of such matters as politics, sports, religion, their philosophy-of-life, they are talking about nothing but their own thinking. (Realizing this frees a person from the first two floors of that invisible prison).
It is one thing to be able to recognize that when someone is ranting on about how the country’s economy will never reach its full potential until we get a Fed chairman who is not part of the Eastern Establishment, and elect congressmen who are more interested in the people’s welfare than they are their own appearances on Sunday morning talk shows, (or that for the Mets to become a constant contender they have got to get a pitching staff more concerned about winning than they are about their salaries). What is much more difficult – within spitting distance of Impossibleville, in fact is to see that the same is true concerning the words you privately hear in your head coming from your own mind.
Someone talking possesses not a trace of personal understanding, nor objective basis for the comments, and in fact is just commenting on his own mental comments. Nothing condemnable is going on – everything is normal. He, same as everyone else, (save BeMer mechanics, and cardiologists), simply doesn’t know what he is talking about. He speaks not actually about politics, or sports, (or anything else outside his own head), but about the thoughts IN his head ABOUT politics, or sports.
It is quite another challenge to realize that the thoughts in your own head about all non-physical matters are of the same ilk.
J.