Unquestionably, in the rigorous observation of the Myself, it is always urgent and unpostponable to make a complete logical differentiation in relation to the external events of practical life and the intimate states of the Consciousness.
We urgently need to know where we are located at a given moment, both in relation to the intimate state of the Consciousness and in the specific nature of the external event that is happening to us.
Life in itself is a series of events that are processed through time and space…
Someone said: “Life is a chain of martyrdom that man carries entangled in his soul…”.
Everyone is very free to think as they wish; I believe that the ephemeral pleasures of a fleeting instant are always followed by disenchantment and bitterness…
Each event has its special characteristic flavor, and the inner states are also of various types; this is incontrovertible, irrefutable…
Certainly, the inner work on oneself refers in an emphatic manner to the various psychological states of the Consciousness…
No one could deny that inside us we carry many errors, and that erroneous states exist…
If truly we really want to change, we need to radically modify those mistaken states of Consciousness with maximum and unpostponable urgency…
The absolute modification of the wrong states originates complete transformations in the terrain of practical life…
When one seriously works on the wrong states, obviously the unpleasant events of life can no longer hurt one so easily…
We are saying something that can only be understood by living it, by really feeling it in the very realm of facts…
Whoever does not work on himself is always a victim of circumstances; he is like a miserable log among the stormy waters of the ocean…
Events change incessantly in their multiple combinations; they come one after the other in waves, they are influences…
Certainly, there are good and bad events; some events will be better or worse than others…
Modifying certain events is possible; altering results, modifying situations, etc., is certainly among the available possibilities.
However, there are situations, in fact, that truly cannot be altered; in the latter cases they must be accepted consciously, although some of them are very dangerous and even painful…
Unquestionably, pain disappears when we do not identify with the problem that has arisen…
We must consider life as a successive series of inner states; an authentic story of our life in particular is formed by all those states…
Upon reviewing the totality of our own existence we can verify for ourselves, in a direct way, that many unpleasant situations were possible thanks to wrong inner states…
Alexander the Great, although he was always temperamental by nature, gave himself up out of pride to the excesses that brought about his death…
Francis I died because of a filthy and abominable adultery, which history still remembers very well…
When Marat was assassinated by a perverse nun, he was dying of pride and envy, he believed himself to be absolutely just…
The ladies of the Parc-aux-Cerfs, unquestionably, totally finished the vitality of the frightful fornicator called Louis XV.
Many people die out of ambition, anger or jealousy; psychologists know this very well…
As soon as our will is irrevocably confirmed in an absurd tendency we become candidates for the pantheon or cemetery…
Othello, due to jealousy, became a murderer, and the prison is full of sincerely mistaken ones…
Revolutionary Psychology, Chapter VIII, “Erroneous States”
Samael Aun Weor
