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Supposing that I say to you,
each one of you is really the great self, you know?
And you say, "Well, all you've said up till now makes me fairly sympathetic to this intellectually."
"But I don't really feel it."
"What must I do to feel it really?"
My answer to you is this...
You ask me that question because you don't want to feel it really.
You're frightened of it.
And therefore what you're going to do,
is you're going to get a method of practice so that you can put it off.
So that I can say, "Well I can be a long time on the way getting this thing."
"And uh, then maybe I'll be worthy of it, after I have suffered enough."
See, because we are brought up in a social scheme,
whereby we have to deserve what we get.
And the price that one pays for all good things is suffering.
But all of that is precisely postponed,
because one is afraid,
here and now to see it.
If you have the nerve... You know, real nerve,
you would see it right away.
I think the greatest of people in society
carve niches that represented the unique expression
of their combinations of talents.
And.. if everyone had the luxury of expressing
the unique combinations of talents in this world,
our society would be transformed overnight...
It's the great tragedy.
People employed in ways that don't fully tap
everything they do best in life.
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, uh..
godlike feature that only the
special among us are will ever taste, you know?
It's something that truly exists in all of us.
It's very simple...
This is what I believe...
and...
I'm willing to die for it, period.
It's that simple. I know who I am, and I know what I believe.
I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that's all I need to know.
So, from there you do what you need to do.
And I think what happens is, we make the situation more complex than it has to be.
Because we're looking for complexity, there's got to be something complex to understand..
It can't be that easy.