One is always "riding the horns of the paradox."

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WAKE UP
by Gary Harmon

Dear dreamers within my dream, something occurs to me.
Dreaming that one is awake is one thing,
Becoming awake to the fact of dreaming is another thing.

In the first, one is still stuck in the dream, subject to the rules
of the dream. In the second, the dream becomes plain, there is control
to move about and act within the dream consciously.
So waking up is becoming lucid within the waking world dream.

Discern that you exist as a dreamer.
Saying "wake up" is a first step. One becomes a
clear dreamer when one wakes up to the fact of the dream.

Some Things I Think are True
by M.R.J.

The only things in life worth striving for are things of spiritual value, which is mostly done indirectly. The soul grows through mundane experiences and constant effort and terrors of just trying to survive or make any progress. The essence of wisdom extracted from the experience becomes part of one's soul or individual self, and is carried from life to life. The only thing you "take with you" is not money but changes made in one's soul.

One's soul is his ray of individuality from the great ALL, from Spirit, from Parabrahman, the totally impersonal Principle or misnomered "God" in the exoteric religious sense - which is totally beyond and incapable of "caring" for anything or anyone in the personal sense. One would have better chance of results by sending his prayers to Winnie the Pooh. While prayer produces no results, Aspiration does. One must aspire in his personal self for a connection with his soul, to become his soul, his inner self, through inner efforts or outer good works. It is a one-way effort. One must aspire to his soul and spirit for his own salvation, it does not aspire to you. Persons who never do this, and never do this over life-times, lose their connection with their source, become a ray broken from the Absolute, a "lost soul." There are many.

The sensation of and connection with one's real self is in the heart region of the body. One should strive to be perpetually centered here and live from here. It is the source of true sanity, wisdom and peace and all latent knowledge of past experience. Centered in the Self one can be in peace in an earthly hell, and without it one may be in a hell while in an earthly paradise. Life is a constant battle and paradox between the soul's need to work and seek experience and develop in the outer world, while the result of this effort is a constant attack on one's ability to stay centered in the Self. One is always "riding the horns of the paradox."