"...ATTEND...to what is directly before you. You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problems... but to attend to your particular corner of the universe. As each person does that, the world saves itself... " (Seth...Oct. 23, 1981)
 
 

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The historical and cultural world as you know it appears to be the only one objective world, of course, with its history already written, its present, and hopefully its probable future...It seems also that the future must be built upon that one known species or world past. Often it may simply sound like a figure of speach when I talk about probabilities. In many ways, it may indeed appear to be almost outrageous to consider the possibility that 'there is more than one earth,' or that there are many earths, each similar enough to be recognizable, yet each different in the most vital aspects...This particular house exists. Yet you may open the door on any given day to a probable world from your immediate standpoint, and never know the difference. This happens all the time, and I mean ALL THE TIME. You move through probabilities without knowing it. The transitions are literally invisible to you, though they may appear as trace elements in your dreams. As a diamond has many facets, so does your reality in that regard. You cannot help yourself and you cannot help your species by identifying with your own weakness, or with the weakness of your species. When you are safe, you are safe, and you are in a position of strength and you can be in a position of tranquillity. Then you have the energy and exuberance to think and feel clearly and to help others. When you are in a position of safety, you do not help by pretending you are not safe, or by taking upon yourself the agony of others. Your reality, when you are safe, is a reality of security. From that framework, you have strength, validity, grace, exuberance-additional energy that you can send out to touch the hearts and realities of other people. If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own; if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment; then you weaken your position and you weaken the position of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers! The tragedies of the newspapers are symbols. Those symbols represent "real" tragedies, but those tragedies do not exist in your moment unless you are participating in them. Those who are involved in such tragedies feel a sense of hopeless and a loss of power in the present - and you do not help them by taking on the guise of hopelessness! What I am saying this evening is indeed simplified… but you must operate from strength, not weakness...When you stand upon a firm shore, you can extend your arm to the man who is in quicksand. You cannot help him by leaping into the quicksand with him, for surely both of you will go down - and he will not thank you! Individually - as you read your paper, as you watch your television, whenever you look around you and say, "Other men are fools"; whenever you look around you and say, "The race is ruining itself - it is insane"; you are doing the same thing - you are jumping into the quicksand, and you cannot help. Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness, according to your dreams; according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears. We have lost the reference to this set of sayings.  Anyone out there know it?

 

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