His name was Jean-Paul Sartre. He looked at Descartes’s statement “I think, therefore I am” very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, “The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.”

If you are awake enough, aware enough, to be able to observe how you interact with other people, you may detect subtle changes in your speech, attitude, and behavior depending on the person you are interacting with. At first, it may be easier to observe this in others; then, you may also detect it in yourself. The way in which you speak to the chai

the good news is that it is also the one that you can most easily go beyond.

you may have to find out what is not right, what no longer works, what is incompatible with your inner purpose.

you will also quickly learn what the most common

We are also learning that action, although necessary, is only a secondary factor in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor in creation is consciousness.

Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.

When you don’t play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do. There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of your self.

Once that foundation is there, your external purpose becomes charged with spiritual power because your aims and intentions will be one with the evolutionary impulse of the universe.