Cloudscape

There are always two ways of dealing with a feeling, either by dealing with its material cause or dealing with its psychological cause. Choose whichever feels most efficient.

Madness is an abandon of reality to escape into fantasy; schizophrenia is also an abandon of the self in order to do so.

When you have the intention to become conscious, remember thereafter now and then to renew that intention, so that you do not become unconscious again. Do this as often as is needed to remain conscious continuously, at least every minute; to do this, you might use a mantra, such as "I am aware" or "I live" to remember your intention quickly. Repeat your mantra whenever you catch yourself becoming les conscious than you want to be, and resolve at that moment to remain conscious for as long as you are able.

Similarly, oneironauts have made use of the mantra "I am dreaming" to prolong lucidity when finding their dreams to become less vivid. Analogously, one can use the mantra "I am living" to prolong mindfulness when finding one's awareness to become less vivid.

When you focus on our experience, you may sometimes feel anxieties as soon as you do so. If so, note that they are there, accept them as part of your experience, and do not give up.

Everything has both a yin and yang aspect, and therefore in some aspects it wil be yang, in others yin; in particular, it may be yin in the more material world yet yin in the more spiritual world, or the other way around. It is clear, then, that even this is relative as are all things.

Anger, for instance, is an emotion and therefore yin when compared to material things, but for an emotion is a yang emotion. A dance is an example of the opposite.

Combine everything with its complement and you will grow yet remain balanced — something which is in itself a combination of complements.

At times our thoughts crowd in on our experience, the transition from one experience to the next becomes more difficult, and we must instead make use of the transition from thought to experience, meaning that we must seek out experience through thought, as a detour. Often when we want to become conscious of our experience, we try to do so; but experience itself cannot be a goal, and when we try to experience, we do so from our thought; when we are trying to become more conscious of our experience, we must therefore realize that we must be patient till the trying wears off, and we can truly experience, not departing from thought but from feeling.

Thought should start with questions, not with wanderings. Think only when the need is felt, and otherwise, feel.

Everything strives for its own survival, for it would otherwise not have come to exist.

Everything can be both positive or negative depending on the case. Therefore nothing in itself is positive or negative, thought to different persons or things it will have positive or negative effects; it is impossible to do anything that is positive or negative in itself, except relative to a specific person or thing. It is but the combination of two things that will make either of the two either creative or destructive to the other. We should try, then, to combine all things in harmony; though to do so fully to all things we would have to be divine.

We can try to let whatever happen to us be as positive to us as it can be, and no matter how negative it may seem, it can always also have a positive influence. In the long run, it may even be constructive even though seeming destructive on the short term.

Wonder and ask yourself with an open curiosity what will happen the next instant, both without you as within you in feelings, thoughts or actions, and experience the answer as it comes. Control it all the while, but only when you find yourself feeling or thinking that it is needed. In this way, observing yourself in every way as though you were someone else, you will become more aware.