7# SPONTANEITY
Free of fear, intelligence is no longer a slave to an identity that needs to be consistent with itself.
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7# SPONTANEITY
We do not trust our nature. Our nature is imprisoned by a controlling mind. Why not base your life in spontaneity, in freedom of expression, in the excitement of not knowing how you might respond next... Trusting it, not being afraid of it. It would be smarter to trust nature instead of fearing it and being suspicious of it.
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6# TRUTH
We tend to identify with our roles, but these roles are not absolute. (...) Identification makes everything disproportionately personal. We are identified with our bodies, our feelings, our thoughts, and our consciousness to the point where we feel this is I, this is what and who I am. And because of our identification, we can become really emotional if what we’ve identified with turns out to be of relative nature. We find it difficult to change, and we are afraid to die because we are deeply identified.
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5# ALIVE SILENCE
Thinking has become a cult, it is out of proportion. Thinking has become an addiction.
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4# CONSCIOUSNESS
We are intelligence, but we are not aware of that. Our nature has become a slave of who we think we are: it is forced to function within the limits of a personality. Holding on to a personal identity requires a consistency that is by definition incompatible with true, free-flowing intelligence; it cancels out intelligence. If I need to behave in such and such a way because I believe I am so and so, my options are very limited. I can no longer respond freely. Identity puts a straightjacket on intelligence. (...) Intelligence is the true principle, not identity or personality. You have learned to communicate with people, and you’ve learned to do it in a certain way: that’s your personality. It is not what and who you are.
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