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Chapter 6: Life


​In the field of practical life, we always discover astonishing contrasts. Wealthy people who have magnificent homes and many friends sometimes suffer terribly.

Humble laborers, members of the middle class may at times, live in complete happiness.

Many multimillionaires suffer from sexual impotence, and rich wives cry bitterly over their husband's infidelity. The rich of the earth seem like vultures in golden cages. In these times, they cannot live without bodyguards.

Statesmen are fettered, they are never free, and wherever they go, they are surrounded by people armed to the teeth. Let us study this situation more carefully.

​We need to know what life is. Everyone is free to think as he wishes.

Say what they will, clearly, nobody knows anything. Life is a problem that nobody understands.

When people freely want to tell us their life stories, they recount occurrences, names and surnames, dates, etc., and feel satisfied telling their stories.

Those poor people ignore that their stories are incomplete because events, names, and dates are merely the external aspect of the film; the internal aspect is missing.

It is urgent to know “states of consciousness.” To each event corresponds one or another state of mind. States are internal, and events are external. External occurrences are not everything.

Internal states are understood as good or bad disposition, preoccupations, depression, superstition, fear, suspicion, pity, self-consideration, overestimation of oneself, states of feeling happy, states of pleasure, etc., etc., etc.

Unquestionably, internal states may correspond exactly to external happenings, or originate from them, or they may not have any relationship with them.

In any case, states and events are different. An event does not always correspond exactly to the state with which we would expect it to be connected.

Our internal state during a pleasant event may not correspond with it.

Our internal state during an unpleasant event may not correspond with it.

When events that have been long awaited finally occur, we feel that something is missing.
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Certainly, the corresponding internal state which should have been combined with the external event was missing. Many times, the event which one had not expected turns out to be the one that provides us with the best moments. 

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