These things unfold in time. That's where future comes in. So you look, the ego looks to the future for fulfilm, but it never really comes, because the future doesn't come. It's always the present moment. And its always the dissatis, ultimately dissatisfying present moment, sometimes giving the deceptive appearance that it is satisfying. I have fallen in love with this wonderful, wonderful person. Oh, and plisla has a certain life span. That state of unconsciousness. And then the strange, paradoxical thing is as if there were some malevolent entity trying to sabotage your life. The very person that you fell in love, that made you so happy for six months,

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or three years later, this person makes you dreadfully unhappy. It's called the divorce proceedings. Oll you live together, but each other. How could i ever have fallen in love with this jug now i am stuck? And then you carry the narrative of this unhappy story. Me sedlitleshar. And everything you experience is seen this veil of your conditioned mind. And of course, the future is terribly dangerous too. Because, although the ego doesn't want to admit it, the future obviously eventually kills you. So the ego feels drawn the future for fulfilment, but deep down it knows, actually, it's going to kill me. So not a pleasant place to be entrapped in an egoic consciousness. Andi, the egoic consciousness continuously is frustrated, always a sense of unease that is covered up, often by smiles. Or you can cover it up with taking alcohol or certain drugs that fom free you a little bit from this torture for daily torture of your mind. It slows down the mind. If you drink enough, the mind slows down. And id is for a little while, you feel liberated, until you take three or four more, and then you become unconscious completely. Of course, it's at least you're not thinking about your problems any more. So it's a kind of liberation. And then this surface identity is then looking for some kind of solution on the surface level of reality. And this is where the tries to er satisfy itself, its sense of self. It does that by creating antagonism. The eagle loves to be hostile to boths people and situations, because then it grows through that. So whenever you have an arg with somebody, the need to be right arises, and that requires the other person to be wrong. It's very unconscious.

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