Portals into the Unmanifested

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    “PORTALS INTO THE UNMANIFESTED” (Tolle 1999, 107)
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    It is probably best if you read this document (`unmanifested.md`, https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9) using a text editor like Windows Notepad or GNOME Text Editor and not a word processor like Microsoft Word.
    “Self (God) is Infinite, Limitless; One, Indivisible; Perfect; Changeless, Immutable; Timeless, Without Beginning or End; Whole, The All; Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent.” (Lester 1962, 65)
    See `Umbrella terms.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9) for a list of synonyms of God (= the Unmanifested).
    “God and good are sometimes used synonymously. Because everyone wants good, they make God good. God is above good and bad. However, good leads us to God.” (Lester 1993, 345)
    In the same way, God and infinite, limitless, etc. are sometimes used ...
    “The Isness _is_ without extension.” (Weber 1996, 148)
    God just _is_, as opposed to God is infinite.
    “The moment you make it into something, you have missed it.” (Tolle 1999, 114)
    ““I” doesn’t eat. It’s “is-ing.”” (Katie 1998, 3)
    “Love (= the Unmanifested) is what you are already.” (Katie and Katz 2005, chap. 12, 245) “Love isn’t a portal; it’s what comes _through_ the portal into this world.” (Tolle 1999, 112) (“~~The apparent mind that questions itself begins to understand where it comes from, which is pure~~ love, for lack of a better word.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 6, 67))
    “The little self, the ego, is nothing but the innate infinite Self assuming that It is limited. There are no two selves, one higher, the other lower, no two “I’s.”
    There is only one Self. It is perfect and always will be perfect, even though you make the false assumption that It is imperfect and limited. You are now, always were, and always will be your Self.” (Levenson 1993, 348)

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    - “__GOING DEEPLY INTO THE BODY__” “the inner body” (Tolle 1999, 107)

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    ___(Dreamless (adj.)) sleep (n.)___
    - “__DREAMLESS SLEEP__” (Tolle 1999, 110)
    Dreamless (adj.).
    “You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source.” “Can you imagine what it would be like to go into dreamless sleep with full consciousness? It is impossible to imagine it, because that state has no content.” “The Unmanifested does not liberate you until you enter it consciously.” “In the Isness we merge with God.” (Weber 1996, 149) “This again is death. It is a conscious death.” (Weber 1996, 149) “But don’t attempt to stay conscious in dreamless sleep. It is highly unlikely that you will succeed.” (Tolle 1999, 110)

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    ___(Timeless (adj.)) now (n.)___
    - “timeless Now” (n.) (Tolle 1999, 111)
    Timeless (adj.).
    “Self (God (= the Unmanifested)) is ... Timeless” (Lester 1962, 65)
    “When you dissolve psychological time through intense present-moment awareness, you become conscious of the Unmanifested both directly and indirectly.” (Tolle 1999, 111)
    “When did the universe begin? Right now (if at all). A clear mind sees that any past is just a thought.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 52, 151)
    “..., because the past is just a thought in the present. (So is the present.)” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 10, 90)
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    ___(? (adj.)) silence (n.)___
    See “__SILENCE__” (Tolle 1999, 112–113) for instructions.
    “Silence enables the sound to be.”
    Truth enables the falseness (= “The quality of being false.”) to be.
    I am true (adj.), truth (n.), the absence of falseness.
    Truth is transparent, silent, timeless, etc.
    I am transparent (adj.), transparency (n.), the absence of ?.
    Transparency (n.) is silent, timeless, etc. (..., omnipotent, omnipresent, alone, unmanifested, ignorant, desireless, good, peaceful, meaningless, familiar, ...)
    So you are these nouns and these adjectives right now.
    And you can use the self-growth yardsticks (Lester 1962, 63–64) to gauge to what degree you feel certain you have any of these godlike qualities.
    ..., “Why Truth Is The Highest Value”, 8 Sept 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvNGha_g2U4.

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    ___(Empty (adj.), transparent (adj.)) space (n.)___
    “__SPACE__” (Tolle 1999, 113–115)
    “Just as no sound can exist without silence, nothing can exist without no-thing, without the empty space that enables it to be. Every physical object or body has come out of nothing, is surrounded by nothing, and will eventually return to nothing.”
    “The Unmanifested is not only present in this world as silence; it also pervades the entire physical universe as space — from within and without. This is just as easy to miss as silence. Everybody pays attention to the things in space, but who pays attention to space itself?”
    “The moment you make it into something, you have missed it. Nothing — space — is the appearance of the Unmanifested as an externalized phenomenon in a sense-perceived world. That’s about as much as one can say about it, and even that is a kind of paradox.”
    “Space has no “existence.” “Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the Unmanifested.”
    “So what happens if ...”

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    ___The darkness (n.)___
    “What is the “darkness within darkness”? It’s the mind that doesn’t know a thing. This don’t-know mind is the center of the universe—it _is_ the universe—there’s nothing outside it. The reason that darkness is the gateway to all understanding is that once the darkness is ___understood___ [emphasis added][“The Unmanifested does not liberate you until you enter it consciously. That’s why Jesus did not say: the truth will make you free, but rather: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” This is not a conceptual truth. It is the truth of eternal life beyond form, which is known directly or not at all.” (Tolle 1999, 110)], you’re clear that nothing is separate from you. No name, no thought, can possibly be true in an ultimate sense. It’s all provisional; it’s all changing. The dark, the nameless, the unthinkable—that is what you can absolutely trust. It doesn’t change, and it’s benevolent. When you realize this, you just have to laugh. There’s nothing serious about life or death.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 1, 6)
    “The darkness, the void, the space that the mind is terrified to enter, is the beginning of all life. It’s the womb of being. Fall in love with it, and when you do, it will immediately be taken from you, as you witness the birth of light.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 5, 14)
    “At some point, I found myself in a place I couldn’t return from. It was so far away that the distance is unimaginable. There was total darkness, with no one and nothing there. It felt as if I were alienated from all beings, forever. I didn’t know how I got there or how to get back. There was no way to die, because being has no opposite there. In that place there’s no death and you live alone forever. There’s no light, no up or down, no possibility of movement, no anything. There’s nothing, forever, with no way out. I felt such terror.
    And then the questions arose to meet the thought: _Can I really know that this is true? How do I react when I believe that there is something better than this? Who would I be without my story of forever?_ And because of this inquiry, the darkness became friendly. I was totally present and comfortable in it.
    When that reality became as comfortable as this reality, I found myself again as “woman sitting on chair in house on Fredricks Street in paradise.” I was at home in that darkness, forever, just as much at home as I am here.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 23, 211)

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    ___(Unconditional (adj.)) love (n.)___
    Unconditional (adj.)(, unconditioned (adj.)), selfless (adj.), loving (adj.).
    - “loving” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 25, 235)
    - “selfless” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg, 1 hr., 1 min., 55 sec.)
    - “unconditional” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7, 18)
    “You are NOT God as long as you oppose what is.” (Katie 1998, 150)
    “Surrender — the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what _is_ — also becomes a portal into the Unmanifested.” “In the state of surrender, your form identity softens and becomes somewhat “transparent,” as it were, so the Unmanifested can shine through you.” (Tolle 1999, 112)
    “When they criticize you and you notice that you love them with all you heart, your work is done.” (https://web.archive.org/web/20250526152359/https://thework.com/2015/09/when-they-criticize-2/)
    “If you were able to love as much as God what would happen is that this duality would completely merge and you would literally become God so the only thing separating you from God is simply your capacity to love which is just a function of how selfless you are” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 19 April 2020, 1 hr., 41 min., 10 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg)
    “The top state is total selflessness. How much are we selfless? If we're at the top, we're totally selfless.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 969)
    “Loving, in fact, often stems from personal strength—meaning, that loving people do not really care that much whether others love them and are therefore strong enough to be truly interested in others. It is altruistic but not particularly self-sacrificing, since, at bottom, the loving individuals enjoy and like themselves and have no need to sacrifice their own major interests to win the approval of others.” (Ellis 2004, 55)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “How loving am I? Do I love all beings?”
    “Am I accepting of the world and the people around me?”
    “Am I accepting of myself?” (Lester 1962, 64) (Am I seeking the approval of others? __YOUR TICKET TO IMPERTURBABILITY__” “Allow the <u>wanting approval</u>, <u>wanting to control</u> and <u>wanting security</u> (= “wanting to survive as a body”) to come into your awareness and immediately let it go.” (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf, 90))
    “___Fast Steps to Freedom___” “Be all giving” (“The abundance course - Crane, Lawrence;Levenson, Lester, 1909-.pdf”, 81)
    `The giving _is_ the receiving.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9)
    “All attitude and action should be in the direction of helping yourself and others toward Realization.” (Lester 1993, 191)
    “If we want to be loved, the way to get it is to love.” (Levenson 1993, 254)
    If we want to be helped, the way to get it is to help.
    If we want to be told the truth ....
    If we want ....
    “__HELPING OTHERS__” (Levenson 1993, 166–171)
    “__MORE ON HELPING OTHERS__” (Levenson 1993, 171–177)
    “Reality is a race, consciousness is a race towards who can love [= “like or enjoy very much”] who more. That's what it is when you're completely selfless.” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg, 1 hr., 1 min., 55 sec.)
    So I don't have to change things, I just have not to dislike them. “Would you let go of the thought that you dislike the person, thing or situation if you could?”
    “One does not increase his love. One merely gets rid of one's hate.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 962)
    “_I can totally reject and even actively oppose what a person is saying and doing._ And at the same time, I can continue to _love that person_ no matter what their behavior is. My ego just has to let me remember that the person is _not_ the mental tapes (conditioning, habits of mind, or _programming_) they have learned.” (Keyes 1992, 5)
    “So we love everyone, see them as misguided beings, forgive them for they know not what they do. They’re like children, misguided. Attain the highest state of loving everyone equally as Christ did!” (Lester 1993, 124)
    

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    ___Desireless (adj.)___
    - “desireless” (Lester 1993, 264)
    Desireless (adj.).
    “There’s an easy way to realization. Just get rid of all desires.” (Levenson 1993, 113)
    “You must get rid of all desire. You can enjoy without desire. In fact, if you really want to enjoy things, you can enjoy far more without desire.” (Levenson 1993, 114)
    “Q: You just have to be desireless?
    Lester: Yes, that’s it! Being desireless, you will see who and what you are;” (Lester 1993, 264)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “Am I desireless? Do I have no attachments and no aversions?” (Lester 1962, 63)
    ““Both formerly & now, it’s only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress” (SN 22:86; MN 22)” (https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/OnThePath/Section0006.html)
    ““And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go of that very craving (= taṇhā; “Craving or excessive or inappropriate desire”).” (SN 56:11)

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    ___(Changeless (adj.)) screen (n.)___
    - “changeless screen” (n.)
    Changeless (adj.), immutable (adj.).
    “Self (God (=the Unmanifested)) is” “Changeless, Immutable” (Lester 1962, 65)
    “God, Truth, the Self is changeless. If God knew change, He wouldn't be changeless.” “God is only the changeless beingness behind the World.” (Levenson 1993, 346)
    “The unrealized man takes the moving pictures to be real, and if he would investigate by grabbing hold of the moving pictures, he would discover the truth, that it is just a changeless screen. Grab hold of your Self and discover the changeless substratum of the world!” (Levenson 1993, 164)
    “___Watching the Play___” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 174)
    “Discover this and you discover the absolute Truth.” (Levenson 1993, 89)
    “The Screen That Lies Behind the Movie” (..., 10 June 2026, https://rupertspira.com/watch-listen/archive/the-screen-that-lies-behind-the-movie/the-screen-that-lies-behind-the-movie/)

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    ___Familiar (adj.)___
    - “familiar”, “transparent” (Spira 2022, 21)
    “there is like a empty white transparent void right where your face you used to imagine was” (…, “Guided Exercise For Realizing You Are God”, 29 November 2020, 57 min., 45 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWxdhEB19s)
    Familiar (adj.), ___transparent___ (adj.).
    “The fact of being aware is the most obvious, intimate and familiar element of experience, and yet it has no objective features. Like space, it cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelt. It is, so to speak, transparent; it is silent and empty. And yet without it there can be no experience.” (Spira 2022, 21)
    “The fact of knowing, being aware or awareness itself is closer to us than our breathing, our innermost thoughts or our most cherished feelings. In fact, it is not _close_ to us; it _is_ what we essentially are. It is overlooked precisely because it is so intimate and familiar, not because it is remote, unknown or inaccessible.” (Spira 2022, 22)
    “It is simply the familiar sense of self that always accompanies us, that _is_ us, but is now relieved of its previous agitation and sense of lack.” (Spira 2022, 31)
    “The familiar experience of our self to which we refer when we say ‘I am’ becomes the belief and feeling ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’. Our unlimited, aware being becomes, or seems to become, a temporary, finite self or ego and, as a result, our innate peace and joy is veiled. It is this veiling of our being that is responsible for our suffering. The happiness we _are_ becomes the happiness we _seek_.” (Spira 2022, 44)
    “Everyone experiences his Self every moment of his life.” (Levenson 1993, 346)
    “My Self is the nearest of the near and the dearest of the dear.” (Levenson 1993, 346)

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    ___Fearless (adj.)___
    - “fearless” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7, 18)
    Fearless (adj.).
    “Love joins everything, without condition. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare; it looks forward to it and then inquires.” (Katie and Katz 2005, chap. 12, 246)
    “It’s unconditional, unceasing, fearless, tireless, without reservations.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7, 18)
    “You've got the method. No more wanting approval or control. Freeze the mind enough so you can dig down into the number one program. Wanting to survive as a body. Fear of dying. You pull that out, you're free.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 837)
    “If you're committed, as you say you are, to allow the feelings of the fear of dying up, and allow them to go out.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 7)
    “Once you release the fear of dying, you'll discover the next and last step. And you don't become an idiot, a zombie. You just become the universe. Your beingness, you see, is the total beingness of the universe.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 15)
    “Bring up the fear of dying. That'll do it for you, if you'll do it. But you're not free now, so you didn't do it.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 1416)
    “___Making Friends with Death___” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 178)

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    ___Omniscient (adj.)___
    - “omniscient”
    Omniscient (adj.).
    “If you take away your mind what’s left over is Omniscience. You are that omniscient Being that you are seeking, clouded over by mind.” (Levenson 1993, 96)
    “The mind is simply the sum total composite of all thoughts.” (Levenson 1993, 87)
    “Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self-imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I.Q.) can be raised to the degree of no limitation.” (Levenson 1993, 92)
    “If you want to be good at anything, the less the ego, the better you are. The ego is a limiting adjunct on the Self. Since the ego is a limiting adjunct of the Self, the less the ego, the more capable you are in everything (except one thing - misery.)” (Levenson 1993, 75)

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    ___Omnipotent (adj.)___
    - “omnipotent” (Lester 1962, 65)
    Omnipotent (adj.), free (adj.).
    “Let go of your fear of dying you'll see you are eternal you are in total control of your universe” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 115)
    “Control is not a dirty word. Control is something we must achieve, but it must be total control of everything in our universe.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 102)
    “There's absolutely nothing wrong with being in control. There's nothing wrong with loving or having approval. The problem is we're always wanting it. And when we're wanting it, we're holding it away.” (“Lester Levenson, … Sedona Method (2024)”, 6–7)
    __YOUR TICKET TO IMPERTURBABILITY__” “Allow the <u>wanting approval</u>, <u>wanting to control</u> and <u>wanting security</u> (= “wanting to survive as a body”) to come into your awareness and immediately let it go.” (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf, 90)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “Do I accept full responsibility for whatever happens to me?” 
    “Am I free to do or not to do the things I want or don't want to do? (Lester 1962, 63)
    “To be free is to have a choice to do or not to do a thing. Complete freedom would allow us to walk down a main street nude. However, to do this would be foolish as it would result in arrest and other trouble. What is required for freedom is the <u>ability</u> to do it, but not the doing of it.” (Lester 1962, 51–52)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “We know only that which we can do. What can I <u>do</u>?
    “__18. Shame-Attacking Exercises__” (Burns 2020, 479–480)
    “__Classical Exposure Techniques__” (Burns 2020, 488–489)
    “__Cognitive Exposure Techniques__” (Burns 2020, 489–490)
    “In fact, the thought of doing imagery exposure to the train trip was so anxiety-provoking that J refused to do the exposure. We took one step further back and asked her to do imagery exposure to the image of doing imagery exposure! Once she got comfortable with the imagery of herself doing imagery exposure to the train trip and becoming highly distraught and tearful in front of her therapist, she was willing to expose herself to the imagery of the train trip.” (Zinbarg et al. 2006, 37)
    “Exposure therapy” (..., 11 June 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT I
    You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself__” (Smith 1975, 24–46)
    “___Fast Steps to Freedom___” “Take responsibility for everything.” “Get everything only by releasing.” (“The abundance course - Crane, Lawrence;Levenson, Lester, 1909-.pdf”, 81)
    “__The Turnarounds__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 154)
    “As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 154)
    “___Responsibility Without Blame___” “Please note again that taking responsibility is very different from blaming yourself or others. Don’t get caught in the blaming trap.” (Keyes 1992, 166)
    “confusion is wanting two things at once and and one thing is not what what's there” (…, “Bridging Heaven & Earth Show # 67 with Byron Katie and Kate Wolf”, 31 August 2025, 21 min., 25 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwUwJgRBMcw)
    “Everyone is doing exactly what he or she wants to.” (Levenson 1993, 192)
    “Speaker: I feel a lot of pressure like it's not my responsibility to help care for the family. So I'm angry that I have to bear the burden.
    “Katie: Yeah. As thought you have to and you didn't.
    Speaker: But I did.
    Katie: Because you wanted to. That's the part you miss.” (…, “Byron Katie - Spiritual Teaching - Turn it Around - Documentary Film (Formless Art Production)”, 3 min., 35 sec., 5 April 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-vBAEcjmTI)
    “If you want one practical key for quickly reaching the Goal, I would recommend that you take full responsibility for everything that happens to you.” (Levenson 1993, 143) “Just say, __“Look what I did.”__ [emphasis added]” (Levenson 1993, 81)
    “__Lester:__ … You are doing it. It’s important that you take full responsibility because, if you don’t, you will never get out of this trap. __Q:__ I understand that it is something that we have created ourselves, but it has reached such a proportion! __Lester:__ Not it, it is you who have reached such a proportion. So long as you blame something else, you’ll never get out of it. You’re doing it. Can’t you see that you cannot undo your limitation as long as you’ll not take responsibility for it? No matter what you call It, whether you call it mind, or body, you are doing it.” (Levenson 1993, 365)
    “to awaken is to become fully lucid within your own dream to understand how you're constructing the dream and that it is all your dream and to take 100 absolute responsibility for the dream” (..., “You Are The Only Person In Existence (Actualized.org/Leo Gura)”, 1 hr., 7 min., 44 sec., 15 Mar 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTHef1NvBRw)
    “The cosmic joke is, it's all a dream. Everything. All of it.”, https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3o1tBB39T/.

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    ___Happiness (n.)___
    Happiness (n.), joy (n.).
    - “Happiness”
    (Spira 2022, _You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being_.)
    “___Fast Steps to Freedom___” “Take all your joy from within.” “Be yourself.” (“The abundance course - Crane, Lawrence;Levenson, Lester, 1909-.pdf”, 81)
    “Isn’t that why you want to save the world in the first place? So that you can be happy? Well, skip the middleman, and be happy from here! You’re it. You’re the one.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 29, 82)
    “Once you understand yourself, you are the pleasure you were seeking; you are what you always wanted.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 73, 241)
     “All of my desire for my entire life has just been desire of my own self. …. So in a sense all of your desire is really, is a perversion of the desire for God.” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 19 April 2020, 47 min., 20 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg)
     “When the object is attained, the mind stills, the joy of your Self shines forth and this joy is attributed to the object, ….” (Levenson 1993, 109) “You can let go of those thoughts without achieving the person or the thing, and immediately you're happy.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 1257) “If we are enjoying anything, we are in duality /djuːˈæləti/. If I enjoy this, there’s “I” and “this.” If there’s God (Self) alone, there can’t be any “I” and “this.” The basic Truth is that you are all joy.” (Levenson 1993, 342)
     “This thing that everyone is seeking, this thing that everyone calls happiness, is nothing but the infinite Self that we are. Everyone, in his every act, is seeking this infinite Self that he is, calling it by other names: money, happiness, success, love, etc.” (Levenson 1993, 305)
     “Everyone is seeking the Self, calling It by different names.” (Levenson 1993, 343)
     “Anyone who’s seeking happiness is seeking the Self. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are consciously seeking God, happiness, the Self, and those who are unconsciously seeking them.” (Levenson 1993, 343)
     “Everyone is seeking his Self in his every act.” (Levenson 1993, 347)
     “The ultimate happiness is the Self. Any other happiness is only a bit of the Self.” Levenson 1993, 347)
     “__Friend:__ … , but as soon as it’s “I want that corn chip,” it’s time to investigate?
    __Katie:__ Yes. _But not with the motive of not eating the corn chip._ You investigate for the love of truth because that’s what you want. A corn chip is a metaphor for that that you really want.” (Katie 1998, 3)
    “If you want more joy, don’t enjoy the thing - enjoy the joy. Be joy! Happiness is our natural inherent state. We are the All. We artificially create a lack and then a desire to relieve that lack, which, when that lack is undone, seems to make us feel better. It’s like sticking a pin into your skin until it hurts and then when you take the pin out, you say, “Gee, that feels good.” This is exactly what enjoying things and people is. We hurt ourselves by creating a lack and then remove the lack and the pain, and say, “Gee, that feels good. That makes me happy.” Every time you feel happiness, you feel only your real Self, more or less. The happier you are, the more you feel your real Self. But you wrongly attribute it to things and people outside of yourself. This is very important so let me restate the mechanism. When you create the lack, you start up thoughts: I need this person or this thing to make me happy. This causes a bit of pain, which you experience as a need, a lack. When you are relieved of that thought of lack, you return back to being your Self, and this is what you call happiness. So that what you have been calling happiness is really only a doing away with a correlation of happiness which is your inherent natural state, restoring it and then wrongly attributing it to external people and things so that we become attached to these external people and things.” (Levenson 1993, 221)
    “However, when we realize the order of creation—__think, feel, act, have__—then we know how to undo the chaos.” (Katie 1996, 8)
    Think (that you don't have), feel (bad), act (to get the thing that you don't have), have, (don't feel) bad.
    __Think__ (that you don't have),
    __feel__ (bad; in the sense of, experience a negative, stressful feeling),
    __act__ (to get the thing that you don't have),
    __have__,
    (don't) __feel__ (bad).


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    ___Ignorant (adj.)___
    Ignorant (adj.; “often disapproving”), unknowing (adj.).
    “Not knowing; not having knowledge, ignorant, (of). Also foll. by _of_, _that_.”
    _Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (6 ed.)_, unknowing (adj.), sense A.1, 3446.
    “Lacking knowledge (general or particular); not versed _in_ a subject, unaware _of_ a fact, _that_.”
    _Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (6 ed.)_, ignorant (adj.), sense A.1, 1322.
    “late Middle English: via Old French from Latin _ignorant_- ‘not knowing’, from the verb _ignorare_, from _in_- ‘not’ + _gno_-, a base meaning ‘know’.”
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, ignorant (adj.), 10 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ignorant.
    “Awareness knows nothing, and therefore it’s hidden to itself.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, 235)
    “All you can do is be it.” (Katie and Katz 2005, 246)
    “You can’t use It, you can’t know It — you can only be It.” (Levenson 1993, 353)
    “How can one phenomena in the phenomenal field (= perception) be perceiving another?” (Leo Gura, “List Of Enlightenment Exercises”, 2 Jan 2017, https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/7587-list-of-enlightenment-exercises/)
    “You say, “I want to know myself.” You _are_ the “I.” You _are_ the Knowing. You _are_ the consciousness through which everything is known. And that cannot _know_ itself; it _is_ itself.” (Tolle 2003, 55–56)
    “When we aren’t attached to our thinking, when all the why’s, when’s, and where’s let go of us, then what really is becomes visible.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, _Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie_, 203)
    “Your ego [“The ego is a thought system ….” (Weber 1996, 150)] has to terrify you all the time or you would go home to God in the body as I have done. This is what I’m here to live. When we are out of thinking, when we let go of having to know all the whys, whens, wheres then everything that Is becomes visible. The consciousness of the Isness, the same as death, comes through. The Isness _is_ without extension. There is no perception, form, thought. This is sometimes scary for humans because they don’t expand their consciousness enough to grasp this, so they stay terrified. The perfection is inconceivable, especially that it could come from being still and quiet and free of useless beliefs; free of beliefs that, of themselves, are useless.” (Weber 1996, 148) “In the Isness we merge with God.” “This again is death. It is a conscious death.” (Weber 1996, 149)
    “To psychologically control your behavior while you were learning and exploring this fascinating verbal ability, as soon as you could understand what your parents told you, you were trained to feel anxious, ignorant, and guilty.
    These feelings are simply conditioned or learned variations of our basic survival emotion of fear. Once we have learned to feel anxious, ignorant, or guilty, we will do a lot of things to avoid feeling these ways.” (Smith 1975, 15)
    “For example, if you are playing with your dog in the living room and Mom wants to take a nap on the couch, she teaches you to respond to manipulative emotional control by saying: “Why are you always playing with Rover.” You then must come up with an answer as to why you are always playing in the living room with Rover. Not knowing any reason why except the fact that you like to and it is fun, you feel ignorant, because if Mom asks for a reason, there must be one. She wouldn’t ask for something that didn't exist, would she?
    If you honestly but sheepishly reply: “I don’t know,” Mom counters with: “Why don’t you go play in your sister’s room with her?” Lacking a “good” reason why you prefer to play with the dog than with your sister, you are again induced to feel ignorant for not knowing why. Searching awkwardly for a reason, your mumbled reply is cut off by Mom “It seems like you never want to play with your sister. She wants to play with you.” Feeling guilty as hell by now, you remain silent as Mom delivers the coup de grace: “If you never want to play with your sister, she won’t like you and want to play with you.” Now feeling not only ignorant and guilty but also anxious about what your sister might think of your attitude, you depart with Rover on your heels to take up your rightful station in life beside Sis and out of Mom’s hearing.” (Smith 1975, 17–18)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT VI
    You have the right to say, “I don’t know.”__” (Smith 1975, 57–59)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT II
    You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses to justify your behavior.__” (Smith 1975, 47–49)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT VIII
    You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.__” (Smith 1975, 62–65)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT IX
    You have the right to say, “I don't understand.”__” (Smith 1975, 65–67)
    “___Moving Beyond Justification___” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 166)
    “Live your truth without explanation or qualification. For example, practice leaving a room honestly without manipulating those you leave behind with polite excuses. “I need to leave now” is enough to begin. Turn, walk, and leave; nothing more.” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 174)
    “__Relax the Problem Solver__” (Kelly 2019, 24–26)
    “You also realize that the turnaround for that statement is equally true:” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 8, 80) God is omniscient.

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    ___Alone (adj.)___
    - “alone” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 70)
    Alone (adj.).
    “As it keeps inquiring, the mind continues to understand that it is its only enemy and that the world is entirely its projection, that it is alone, that there is no other, and that this is absolute.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 70)
    “There are no humans; there is no mind; it’s all a dream.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 9, 83)
    “The fact is that you’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing, and you react to the meaning you yourself have projected. Loneliness comes from an honest place—you’re the only one here. There are no humans. You’re it.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 16, 154)
    ..., “Aloneness is a Portal to Oneness”, 30 Jan 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8IIsPeUMhk.
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “Am I able to be alone and be at peace?” (Lester 1962, 64)
    See `Solipsism.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9).
    ..., “Is Solipsism True ? - The Ultimate Guide To Solipsism”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBSy8fetfDI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTHef1NvBRw, https://www.bitchute.com/video/1HSdG8vnx6Qu/

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    ___Indifference (n.)___
    - “indifference”
    Indifferent (adj.), uncaring (adj.), guiltless (adj.).
    “__Guiltless__ is also not a very common word. It can indicate an absence of actual guilt (_Isabelle was guiltless: I was to blame for everything_) or an absence of any guilty feeling (_lavish menus for those who enjoy guiltless eating_).”
    _Oxford Thesaurus of English (3 ed.)_, “_Choose the right word_ __innocent, blameless, guiltless__” 468.
    “God is indifference.
    Indifference is Love!
    LOVE IS INDIFFERENCE!” (Leo Gura, _Actualized Quotes #597_, 15 May 2026, https://actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-597)
    “to feel that something is important and worth worrying about”
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, care (v.), sense 1, 10 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/care_2.
    “__care (about somebody)__ to like or love somebody and worry about what happens to them”
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, care (v.), sense 2, 10 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/care_2.
    “__identification (with somebody/something)__ a strong feeling of sympathy, understanding or support for somebody/something”
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, identification (n.), sense 4, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/identification.
    “Some people think that compassion means feeling another person’s pain. That’s nonsense. It’s not possible to feel another person’s pain. You imagine what ...” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 26, 72)
    “_You say, “Nothing and something are equal.” Doesn’t that mean that nothing matters? And if nothing matters, isn’t that depressing?_
    All somethings are nothing, since they’re all imagined, and “nothing” is equal to “something.” Does anything matter? Yes, to the ego. But the fact that the ego believes it doesn’t make it real.
    Once you realize that you’re no one, you’re _thrilled_ that nothing matters. There’s so much freedom in that! The whole slate is wiped clean at every moment. It means that every new moment is a new beginning, where anything is possible. You also realize that the turnaround for that statement is equally true: everything matters. That’s just as thrilling as its opposite.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 8, 80)
    “There aren’t two to take care of, or three, or four, or a billion. There’s only one. The relief of that! It’s enormous! “You mean there’s nothing to do? That if I’m okay, everything is okay?” Yes, that’s exactly it. It’s self-realization.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 32, 92–93)
    ..., “Be Selfish!!, NDE 5-9-17”, 9 Jun 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LpeEgDhR-Q.
    ..., “Who Are The Good Guys and Who Are The Bad Guys, NDE”, 2 Dec 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_9T6md60Oc.
    “The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside ...” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, 182–183)
    “Until there’s peace within you, there is no peace in the world, because you are the world, you are the earth.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, 198)
    “You are the cause of all the suffering that exists in this world.” (Katie and Wilhelm 2013)
    “The whole world is projected. When you’re shut down and frightened, the world seems hostile; when you love what is, everything in the world becomes the beloved. Inside and outside always match—they’re reflections of each other. The world is the mirror image of your mind.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 1, 4)
    “The world you see is a reflection of how you see it. If your world is ugly or unfair, it’s because you haven’t questioned the thoughts that are making it appear that way. As your mind becomes clearer and kinder, your world becomes clearer and kinder. As your mind becomes beautiful, your world becomes beautiful.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 10, 91)
    “__The Turnarounds__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 154)
    “As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 154)
    “The power of the turnaround lies in the discovery that everything you think you see on the outside is really a projection of your own mind. Everything is a mirror image of your own thinking.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5, 156–157)
    “The greatest gift you can give others is your realization that there is no self and no other.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 24, 214)
    “But once he realizes the truth of it, all these imagined beings are set free, and in that the bodhisattva is enlightened. Sentient beings are here to serve the enlightenment of the bodhisattva, not the other way around. All beings are within the bodhisattva; it just seems as if they’re outside him. They are consistently and without interruption here to enlighten him.” “All beings are liberated through the enlightenment of the one who created them in the first place.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 3, 24)
    “How can your suffering ever help anyone? The only thing that can help is for you to end your suffering.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 3)
    “Whose business is it?” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5, 145)
    “You can contribute to your mutual well-being by giving these five freedoms to yourself and your partner. In my brief marriage with Bonita, I made myself upset when she felt angry toward me. I now realize that my separate-self ego was not giving Bonita freedom to feel what she was feeling. I thought he anger meant something about me. I now know it was only her own programming that made her feel angry. I used to feel I should defend myself. I know now that it's OK for my partner to feel upset, critical, or whatever. And I've learned that my partner can get herself through these unpleasant emotions much quicker if I allow her the five freedoms and don't make her wrong for having them. And giving her these freedoms does not necessarily mean I agree with her.” (Keyes 1992, 45–46)
    “Every time you try to second-guess what someone else is thinking or feeling, every time you believe that you know what’s good or bad for them, you have moved out of your own business and into someone else’s.” (Katie and Katz 2005, 192)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT III
    You have the right to judge whether you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.__” (Smith 1975, 49–53)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT IV
    You have the right to change your mind.__” (Smith 1975, 53–54)
    “__ASSERTIVE RIGHT X
    You have the right to say, “I don't care.”__” (Smith 1975, 67–71)
    “___Responding with an Honest “No” to the Heartfelt Requests of Others___” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 167–168)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS” 
    “ࠪDo I grant others their beingness?” (Lester 1962, 63)
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    ___The undecaying (adj.)___
    - “the undecaying” 
    ““Monks, I will also teach you the undecaying and the path leading to the undecaying …” (..., _Unfabricated-Connected Asaṅkhata Saṁyutta (SN 43)_, 10 June 2026, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN43.html)
    Undecaying (adj.), deathless (adj.).
    “_You assure people that questioning is safe. But you also say that it’s necessary to lose everything. Isn’t that intimidating for most people?_
    I can see how it might be intimidating. But are you really safe identifying as a body? As a body, isn’t it certain that all the people you love will eventually leave you or die, and that you’ll age, get sick, hurt in all kinds of ways, and at last die yourself? Is that “you” safe? So to lose your false identity is to gain everything. In the world of no self and no other, there is no suffering, no decay, no death, no falseness. It’s a world of pure beauty. It’s yours already, and it only waits to be realized.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 9, 87)
    “As he dissolved the fear of death, he realized one day that his body was sound, healed. The physical impairment was corrected.” (Lloyd 1983, chap. 13, 82)
    “And in that three-month period of time, all the ailments I had in my physical body corrected.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 33)
    “I suggest that you not do The Work with the motive of healing your body. Go in for the love of truth.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 20, 190)
    “Any motive other than the love of truth won’t work. It’s the truth that sets you free.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 40, 121)
    “BK: The lie is the motive. You are not doing The Work to find Truth.” “The Truth is, “I will do anything to know the Truth and then whatever happens is not my business.”” (Katie 1996, chap. 4, 34)
    ““I’m going to get better as I do The Work”—if you have that as a motive, you can afford that hope, since it’s true that as you do The Work you do get better, until you catch up to your dear, wonderful self ....” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 9, 86–87)
    Am I undecaying?

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    ___Peaceful (adj.)___
    - “peace” (..., _Unfabricated-Connected Asaṅkhata Saṁyutta (SN 43)_, 10 June 2026, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN43.html)
    Peaceful (adj.).
    “Love (= the Unmanifested) itself is not an emotion. It's a very, it's the quietest of all things.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 285)
    “What was beyond this incredible, joyous state that didn’t stop? He saw that it was peace, imperturbability ... and he realized with certainty that if he accepted it, if he decided to move into that peace, it would never, ever go away ... and he went ... slipped into it so effortlessly ... with just a decision to have it ... he was there.
    Everything was still. He was in a quietness that he now knew had always been there but drowned out by incessant noise from his accumulated, uncorrected past. In fact, it was more than quiet; it was so far beyond anything imaginable that there were no words to describe the delectable deliciousness of the tranquility.
    His earlier question about happiness was answered too. There were no limits to happiness, but when you have it all, every minute, it gets tiresome. Then this peace is just beyond ... and all you have to do is step over the line into it.
    “Is there anything beyond even this?” he wondered. But as he asked, he knew the answer.
    This peace was eternal and forever, and it was the essence of every living thing. There was only one Beingness and everything was It; every person was It, but they were without awareness of the fact, blinded by the uncorrected past they hold on to.” (Lloyd 1983, chap. 13, 83)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS” (Lester 1962, 63)
    “Am I completely at peace?”
    Am I (= “The little self, the ego, is nothing but the innate infinite Self assuming that It is limited.”) peaceful (= “quiet and calm; not worried or upset in any way”)?
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, peaceful (adj.), sense 2, SYNONYM __tranquil__, 10 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/peaceful.
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, peace (n.), sense 2, 10 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/peace.
    _Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary_, peace (n.), sense 5, 10 June 2026, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/peace.

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    ___Truth (n.)___
    - “ultimate Truth” (Levenson 1993, 81)
    “__Question 1: Is it true?__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5, 143)
    “__Question 2: Can you absolutely know that it’s true?__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5, 145)
    “I recommend that people tell the truth because all stress is caused by lying.” (Blanton 1996, 53)
    “The kind of lying that is most deadly is withholding, or keeping back information from someone we think would be affected by it.” (Blanton 1996, xxv)
    “The Truth Changes” “Because of being lost in our own minds, we fail to recognize that the truth changes. When the truth changes and we fail to recognize what has _now_ become true, while holding on to the _idea_ of what used to be true, we become liars committing suicide.” (Blanton 1996, xxx)
    “I differentiate three phases, or levels, of telling the truth. These levels may occur successively, or simultaneously, or a person may master one or two levels and retreat from the next. ~~Often people retreat after encountering the frightening sense of freedom afforded by a breakthrough at a new level. Sometimes they try again later, sometimes not.~~ The three levels are: revealing the facts; honestly expressing current feelings and thoughts; and, finally, exposing the fiction you have devised to represent yourself and your history.” (Blanton 1996, 48–49)
    “The first level of telling the truth is to reveal the facts. It is a matter of clearing up lies from the past and the false presentation of self being maintained through withholding.” (Blanton 1996, 49)
    “The first level of this process is revealing deceptions and withholds” (Blanton 1996, 50)
    “She had [“a whole stack of” (Blanton 2005, 60)] compiled secrets and unfinished business with her father, her first husband, and her current husband.” (Blanton 1996, 51)
    “The second level of telling the truth is to begin to speak forth the emotional truth and the truth of one's judgments to reveal one's constantly active, secret mind. You begin here the practice of admitting how you feel when you feel it, speaking your secret judgments of others out loud, and constantly revealing your own petty and condescending ways.” (Blanton 1996, 54)
    (“You must get into the habit of restricting your thoughts to those that are such that if you were suddenly asked, “What are you thinking?” you could answer, frankly and without hesitation, “X” or “Y,” and it would immediately be clear from your reply that all your thoughts are guileless and kindly, the thoughts of a sociable<sup>11</sup> creature who disdains pleasurable or any kind of self-indulgent fantasies and is untouched by rivalry, malice, suspicion, or anything else that one would blush to admit one had in mind.” (Aurelius and Waterfield 2021, _Meditations_, chap. 3) “The act originates in the mind. Every negative thought, every bad thought we have creates karma that we don’t like and we call it bad karma. If people only knew this! It doesn’t matter whether we carry out the act or not. The seed is sown in the thought.” (Levenson 1993, 264–265))
    “The second level of telling the truth, revealing the emotional and judgmental truth on a moment-by-moment basis, is damned hard work and it never ends. Therapy ends, but this work never ends. Therapy ends when the person takes over the task of telling the truth “steady as she goes,” as her own task and as her own alternative to manipulation.” (Blanton 1996, 55)
    “___Being Consistently Honest — Now___” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 166)
    “If you will look at it from your very own center, the words love, acceptance, identification, understanding, communication, truth, God, Self are all the same.” (Levenson 1993, 43, 122-124, 250-258; Keyes 1992, 2-11)
    “15. Honest Communication Exercises” (Katie and Jensen 2000, 162–169)
    “THE TWELVE PATHWAYS To the Higher Consciousness Planes” (Keyes 1975, 14–15) “INTERACTING WITH OTHERS” “7. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feeling, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.” (Keyes 1975, 15)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS” 
    “ࠪAm I able to express myself clearly, freely, and truthfully?” (Lester 1962, 64)
    ““…—it’s a tree, is it true?” (Katie 1998, 158) “What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see. In other words, we cannot see what we don’t believe (= “to think that something is ___true___, correct, or real:”).” (…, 19 October 2025, https://rayhemachandra.com/2017/01/04/byronkatie/, https://archive.is/Wgbq2)
    ..., “How Authority Works - Where Does Truth Come From?”, 7 Jul 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzYKVL5CB0.
    https://www.actualized.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/leo-quote-why-self-deception-is-so-powerful-01.png
    “the act of deliberately making somebody believe something that is not true (= of deceiving them)”
    _Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, deception (n.), sense 1, 11 June 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/deception.

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    ___Quiet (adj.)___
    - “_The all-quiet state_”
    - “stillness” (Tolle 1999, 115)
    - “imperturbability” (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf, 90)
    Quiet (adj.), quietness (n.), stillness (n.), imperturbability (n.).
    “_“The all-quiet state is such a tremendous state, that it can never be put into words. The words ecstasy, euphoria, bliss, nirvana don’t describe it really - they only allude to it.”_” (Levenson 1993, 279)
    “When your feelings are up and out, your mind is naturally quiet. And you're self-obvious to yourself as to the fact that you are whole, complete, perfect, eternal.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 394)
    See `summary.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9).
    “I ought to re-define the word “meditation.” When I say meditation, I mean holding one thought to the exclusion of other thoughts, and that one thought should be a question. As other thoughts drop away the mind gets quiet and concentrated. When the mind is concentrated, you will experience your Self and It will answer any and every question. It will answer the questions that we need to have answered to show us the way out of the bondages. Now, in meditation, the moment you sit down to quiet the mind, it seems to get noisier, which is natural. The thoughts come up for us to drop, to let go of. And each time we let go of one, that’s one less that we have to let go of. And each time we let go of one, that’s one that we have to let go of. As time goes on and we keep dropping these thoughts, we have less and less to drop. Someday the mind becomes quiet enough so that we fully see this infinite Being that we are; and then in one lump sum, we drop all that is left. And when there are no more thoughts, we are free and there is left only our infinite Self.” (Levenson 1993, chap. 29)
    ““What am I?” is the very top question.” (Lester 1993, 287) “__Question 4: Who or what would you be without the thought?__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 153)
    “When the thoughts are quiet, the limitless Being is obvious. It’s Self-effulgent; it’s there all the time; it’s just covered over by thought concepts, every one of which is limited. So, the way is to pose the question “What am I?” and quietly await the answer.
    Other thoughts will come in, and the biggest difficulty is quieting these thoughts. When other thoughts come in, if we pose the question, “To whom are these thoughts?” the answer naturally is, “To me.” Then, “What am I?” puts us right back on the track again. That way we can continuously keep our attention on “What am I?”” (Levenson 1993, 118)
    “When you develop the ability to meditate (= jhanas), it leads you into the most beatific, blessed state; into nirvana, tranquility and serenity; into your quiet meditative state of knowing what you are - you, the real Being of the universe, being your infinite, glorious and magnificent Self.” (Levenson 1993, 289)
    “__Interpretations of the Jhanas__” (..., 10 June 2026, https://www.leighb.com/jhanantp.htm)
    “In teaching the eightfold path, the Buddha defined right concentration to be the jhānas.” (Brasington 2015, Preface)
    ““And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress: precisely this noble eightfold path—right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.4” (..., _Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta  (SN 56:11)_, 10 June 2026, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html)
    “SELF-GROWTH YARDSTICKS”
    “Am I completely free from reacting to people's wishes and thoughts?” 
    “Am I disturbed?” (Lester 1962, 64)
    “Another portal into the Unmanifested is created through the cessation of thinking.” (Tolle 1999, 111)

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    ___Stillness (n.)___
    - “stillness”
    - “immovable” (Katie and Katz 2005, chap. 12, 245; Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 4, 32)
    Still (adj.), immovable (adj.).
    (Carse 2005, _Perfect Brilliant_ ___Stillness___ _: Beyond the Individual Self_.)
    “The only requisite for the realization of the Self, your Self, is stillness.” (Lester 1993, 352)
    “The Self is Quiescence, perfect Awareness with perfect Stillness. He who seeks God will not find God in duality. There is no human, God being All. There is no time, no becoming. There is no creating in total perfection. Only God beholds God, there being nothing else. Only God loves God, God being All. Be still and know that you are God!” (Levenson 1993, 353)

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    ___Witness  (n.)___
    - “witness” (Levenson 1993, 118), “observer” (Levenson 1993, 262)
    “_witnesses claimed that he started the fight_: observer, onlooker, eyewitness, spectator, viewer, watcher; bystander, passer-by.” (_Oxford Paperback Thesaurus (4 ed.)_, witness (n.), sense 1, 11 June 2026, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199640959.001.0001/t-en_gb-msthes-00019-0015167)
    Witness (n.), observer (n.).
    “__BE NOT THE DOER__
    In addition to posing this question until we get the answer, it is good practice in our daily life to be not the doer, be not the agent. Just be the witness! Acquire the “It is not I but the Father who worketh through me” attitude (which several in this group already have). This is the main conduct of life that we should strive for. The more we become the witness in life, the more we become non-attached to the body, the more we are our real Self. So, there are two things I’m suggesting, one is the quest “What am I?” and the second is, in life itself, be not the doer; be the witness. Let things happen; allow life to be. That’s the way we are in the top state, and the best behavior in life is that which is characteristic of the top state. There are many other things which I’m sure you are aware of: humbleness, goodness, kindness, honesty, etc. All these things help, but the greatest aid is to be not the doer - but be the witness.” (Levenson 1993, 118–119)
    “When I say, “Be the witness.” that is still in the realm of duality, witnessing the duality, but it’s a giant step forward. It’s a method of letting go of the ego sense of being the doer.” (Levenson 1993, 262–263)

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    References
    - Spira 2022, _You Are the Happiness You Seek_.
    - Zinbarg et al. 2006, _Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Therapist Guide_.
    - Burns 2020, _Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety_.
    - Katie 1996, _What To Do When Nothing Works: The Manual For The Work_.
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    - Katie 1998, _Losing the Moon: Byron Katie Dialogues on Non-Duality, Truth and Other Illusions_.
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[Lunatic]

    “We were just exchanging this energy between each other and if we wanted the energy to change, ONE of us had to be conscious to change the energy.
    Hmmm, whatever was projected out, was sent right back, as a circular motion from the sender.
    I was the receiver AND the giver.
    It was very clear to me.
    The energy showed me there was no difference, we were just projecting it all; projecting the energy back and forth.
    We are all transmitters AND receivers of this energy.
    I was shown the energy of GIVING and RECEIVING were the same energy.
    There was no seperation or difference in this energy.
    I REALIZED in the moment that we were ONE, that the meaning of GIVE and YOU SHALL RECEIVE was in this energy that we exchange with each other, whether love or hurt; that whatever I gave another, I was TRULY giving to myself.
    It's alot to comprehend, I know, but I was actually shown through an energy exchange of how it works and it wasn't anything that I was taught on earth.
    I was EXPERIENCING the same energy that the other one was and I KNEW this.
    (Later I would realize, that when our HEARTS are blocked, we are unable to give or receive love: ALSO
    I would have a realization, If I'm not able to give another a million dollars, how am I going to be OPEN to receive a million dollars.
    We are one, there is no difference in the giving and receiving, it's a flow of energy when left unrestricted.
    If I'm open to give a million dollars then I'm open to receive it.)
    LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF,
    DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOU!!!!
    This was soooo clear to me.”
    https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1anne_w_nde.html
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcoDp8VWFc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xDNyKmwr0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1Ru65c2jc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHKQ0W-MFM
    
    “it's like two mirrors that are mirroring light between each other like a laser beam bouncing between two mirrors and it just bounces back and forth and back and forth and as it bounces it becomes more and more and more concentrated and it's strengthens and it becomes more coherent” (Leo Gura, _Actualized.org_, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 1 hr., 6 min., 15 sec., 1 hr., 7 min., 40 sec., 19 Apr 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg)
    
    “And I also saw that this energy of light was going not only out from the eye, it was also reflecting back into the eye. So it was a double stream of energy coming out but also coming back into the eye.” (Dani Foffa and Lasse Gustavson, “He Died in a Gas Explosion — What He Saw Beyond Death Is Incredible (Profound NDE)..”, 12 min., 35 sec., 5 Jun 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9zOeOtPOg)
    
    “We are not separated and what we do to each other will also reflect back to us. It's some kind of karma law.” (Dani Foffa and Lasse Gustavson, “He Died in a Gas Explosion — What He Saw Beyond Death Is Incredible (Profound NDE)..”, 25 min., 15 sec., 5 Jun 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9zOeOtPOg)
    https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Gustavson

    “Since all beings are its own dear reflected self, it’s always receiving, giving itself back to itself.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7)
    “When a friend gives me a gift, the gift is in the receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7)
    “When I give to you without motive, I am delighted. I act with kindness because I like myself when I do that. The kindness can only be to myself. It doesn’t include anyone else, not even the apparent receiver. I am both giver and receiver, and that’s all that matters.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 67)
    “What you give is what you receive, and I love that. I am always receiving for myself what I give to others. Sacrifice is not a word that holds any meaning for me, since, in my experience, giving something away doesn’t—can’t—mean giving it up. When I give it to you, it’s me I’m giving it to. There’s no separation.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 75)
    “And since she loves and understands her own nature, she realizes that in every action she is serving herself and sitting at her own feet. So there is nothing she gives that she doesn’t receive in the same motion, as the same internal experience.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 78)
    “GIVING IS RECEIVING” “The giving _is_ the receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 4)
    “The Buddha is always generous. There’s nothing he would hold back, because for him the giving is the receiving. He is always talking only with himself. This whole sutra is the self (the awareness that is more accurately called the non-self) in discussion with itself. The apparent “other,” the person we’re speaking to, is a self-image. There’s nothing outside our perception; we either perceive it or we imagine that it exists.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 4) (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 2)
    “What happens when you just stand there and receive? The receiving is the giving. It’s the most genuine thing you can give back. When someone comes to hug me, I don’t have to hug them back.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, _Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie_, chap. I)
    “The next time you give your children money, realize that the receiving is in the giving. There’s nothing more to receive than that. If you touch it again, it’s hot! The receiving is in the moment you give it. That’s all you get. It’s over. If you have one expectation, one desire for them to be grateful, you lose the gift.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, _Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie_, chap. IV)
    “Someone gave me a precious gift the other day, and I loved it. But the gift was in the receiving. In that it was over, and I noticed that I gave it away immediately. Its purpose was over (“When a friend gives me a gift, the gift is in the receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7)). There’s no value to even the most precious object beyond the giving and receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, _Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie_, chap. V)
    “Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving anything in return. When we strive for this, we see and feel nothing but the most enthralling love everywhere and in everyone. We taste the sweetness of Beingness and are effortlessly locked in harmony with that. We are intoxicated with the joy that defies description.” (Lester 1993, chap. 4)
    “The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.” (Lester 1993, chap. 4)
    “The most you can give is your love. It is greater than giving materiality.” (Lester 1993, chap. 4)
    “When you let someone know you are doing something for them, they are obligated and return a “thank you”. When they don’t know and don’t return, then the Infinite returns - overflowing!” (Lester 1993, chap. 19)
    “Ross also likes to play with an exercise that I recommend, which is to do a kind act and not get found out; if you’re found out, the act doesn’t count, and you start over.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5)
    “Karma is the law of compensation. Whatever a man soweth, that shall he reap; that which a man thinks or does, returns to him in kind.” (Lester, Frank (= Levenson, Lester) 1962, _The Eternal Verities_, 64)
    So, with no thought of receiving anything in return, the giving is the receiving. And the receiving is the giving, so I don't have to give back.
    So I don't have to give back. And it doesn't mean, don't.
    (So I don't give back with a thought of receiving anything in return.)
    So I don't give back because I have a thought that I have to (= “be obliged or find it necessary to do the specified thing” (_Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)_)).
    So I don't give back because I have a thought that I am “obligated” (Lester 1993, chap. 19)
    So I don't give back because I have a thought that it is expected of me.
    …
    So I don't do sth for sb …
    So I don't help sb …
    “Each one glorifies himself by service rendered to others and must, therefore, necessarily receive from others. Thus God flows back and forth and we delight in His exoticism.” (Lester 1993, chap. 5, 50)
    “If you have one expectation, one desire for them to be grateful, you lose the gift.”
    If you have one expectation, one desire for them to be grateful, _they_ lose the gift.
    The gift is in the _receiving_. (“When a friend gives me a gift, the gift is in the receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 7))