Messages from elsewhere

"The Pandora’s box you humans have opened is that if more can be communicated more is expected. And the increased data flow becomes an accepted standard which chains you to an ever increasing tide of information. If you take a cool look you will see you can discard quite a lot. It may seem rude to your colleags, but provided you sharpen your judgment about what is essential and don’t make it an excuse for incompetence theyll have no cause to complain.
How many of you won't interrupt a live conversation with a friend to answer the phone? The implication is that the machine is more important than the person. You say ‘oh its someone wanting to get thou.’ But what about the person who is already throu? They must wait, the machine is more important.
"Why? Because you are looking for that message you expect to receive from your subconscious. You have constructed a mind-set that says ‘I am unimportant, I don’t have any messages. Messages come from something ‘other than me’, from afar: the phone, the radio, the tv, they send messages from afar. This phone ringing may herald that message which will explain the function of my life to me.’ The bell rings insistently, summoning you by a tintinnabulation that excites your auditory nerve. You can't resist. God is on the phone! Maybe there will be news of Him in the morning paper? -on the radio? -tonight on television?
"So your expectations are raised to fever pitch. You must play your portable stereo on the bus. The emptiness of a waiting room alarms you, you tap your foot to kill the time. Lest ...
"Lest what? Lest you catch sight of that silent part of yourself in one of the shiny surfaces you have surrounded yourself with? Yet all the information you need is within you! You were born with it. Entertainment has a proper place, its a marvellous form of re-creation. It provides opportunities for unforgetable closeness to your fellow humans. But re-creation is no substitute for that proper first creation and realisation of the transcendent within your own personality.
"Say this out loud to yourself 'I AM the person whom I AM seeking.' Let the noise and confusion fall away. Repeat it slowly and quietly until you have no further need to say it, but can just sit and think it. Let it permeate your mind, so that when you go back into company you remain quite confident that ‘the answer’ is not anywherelse but in your own mind. Facts may be somewherelse, but facts are never the answer. They are an answer-substitute.
"'I AM the person whom I AM seeking.' To the degree to which you can live in this awareness you will experience liberation from the centrifugal force that draws everyone away from their own centre in search of what they already possess."