In the life outside of you, and the one inside of you and every other man, there are doers and story-tellers, kings and priests, warriors and philosophers, peasants and poets, tyrants, elected officials, hormones and neurons which are the sources of all doing and story-telling.
When you fully recognize on your own that all of human existence consists of either, doing or story-telling and that that is all there is – your consciousness will be freed of a crippling weight that the rest of humanity is not even aware is there.
It may at first sound to your routine mind so simple as to be useless, but for the few, the expedient utilization of this view can prove priceless. A crisp, clear look reveals it to be verbally inescapable. Everything that man does, from the grandiose to the mundane, from the spiritual to the profane, from the largest and seemingly most important to the tiniest and apparently least significant – each and every activity of man can be seen to be either doing or story-telling. No matter where you look, you can find nothing to which man devotes his attention that does not clearly fall into one of these two ad hoc categories. This division includes no qualitative judgment on any of the human activities, but simply presents a verbally accurate map of how things are.
It matters not whether you use the terms, doing and story-telling, or others, but if you do not recognize that all of human existence consists of one or the other, what is really going on in life will remain hidden from you. You will continue to aimlessly mull about, muttering along with all the other forced attendees, at the never ending cocktail party at Babel Towers.
For the use of the secret few with the Specially Hungry Eyes, it is not a functional oversimplification to say that all of your distracting idiocy has but a single cause – your failure to realize this strict division, and your subsequent confusing of the two. For those sincerely desirous of getting-to-the-bottom-of-things, nothing serves to distort your comprehension of what is going on in life more than does your thoughts’ invalid commingling of doing and story-telling.
It may first strike you as fishy, but if you would force your mind to continually take the time to place whatever it may be that catches its attention into one of these two categories, your basic perception of life and of other people would be forced onto a more sound footing.
J.