# Essence of Reality  ## Metadata - Author: [[Thomas Nehrer]] - Full Title: Essence of Reality - Category: #books ## Highlights - As if entering a new room, I felt the immediate, intense perception that I was not one thing looking at a collection of remote objects, but that I was all those things, a singular entity, a Oneness, looking at the whole of my Self from within. ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=205)) - Reality works in this fashion: what you hold in your mind – the self-image, the hopes and expectations, the world view, the beliefs, the fears, the feelings and all else – becomes realized in your life, continuously. What you experience, in all the events and relationships you encounter, is a reflection of this total set of collective values you hold within your mind. All that you perceive and encounter, including the Self, are aspects of a Singularity, an inter-related, cohesive Oneness. ([Location 268](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=268)) - The flow of your life is not dependent on the apparent condition of the environment, only on your inner state. ([Location 353](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=353)) - You attain real peace when you come to see clearly that your body function reflects your mind state, your career success reflects your mindset, your relationships invariably reflect your inner nature, your house reflects... ([Location 356](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=356)) - This is not mystical sleight-of-hand or wide-eyed New Age conjecture. It is How Life Works: you are, at once, the Consciousness in the form of an entity who experiences a Reality and the Reality, in terms of value and meaning played out in your experience. ([Location 455](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=455)) - Thus, the only real leverage you have over the world is in changing your own inner mindset. ([Location 477](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=477)) - So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from inside out. ([Location 487](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=487)) - The real New Age is a simple, but stunningly profound, awareness that one’s Self and all that one encounters are two aspects of the same, singular Essence. ([Location 582](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=582)) - Only after you stop blaming your problems on external conditions or other individuals do they cease to be any sort of threat to you. Realize that events in your life are within your – only your – authority to create. ([Location 598](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=598)) - the will, the intent. ([Location 608](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=608)) - All the events of your life are reflective of your inner state. All that happens to you – from the mundane to the spectacular, in terms of life or death, pleasure or pain, success or failure – is a consequence of the complex of mind-elements, values, images and such held in your Consciousness. No event occurs outside this picture. The person deeply at peace does not experience conflict and struggle. The person whose mind is steeped in struggle and conflict, though, will experience little else. ([Location 635](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=635)) - Clearly Aware of the Essence of Reality, when you look out into the world, you see only a reflection your Self. And you don’t need a mirror. ([Location 712](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=712)) - But that is only the beginning of the differences between what exists in my mind and what might exist in yours when we use the word “rock” to communicate! ([Location 744](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=744)) - The Journey incorporates two gestures based on its and your very nature: first is a process of clarifying your awareness to perceive the Oneness, the inner-outer flow of values into real elements of life, and second is the measured jettison of inner elements that negate, neutralize and/or nullify your will. ([Location 880](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=880)) - While Love is, overall, an absolute, an emerging essence, Joy is much more a reflective quality. As such, Joy is virtually the reciprocal of Love – i.e., the status of being loved, embodied in events and relationships that reflect the will and thus reflect back a status of being accepted. ([Location 1228](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=1228)) - But once you’ve clearly identified all aspects of a particular issue – then you have dominion over it. When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, you can change them and thus it. And your single, effective means to revise that inner realm is Autosuggestion – with you providing the directions to dispel previous programming and superimpose desired aspects. ([Location 1613](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=1613)) - Be yourself; trust in that Self to express your inner feelings and direct Your Path toward peace, self-realization and accomplishment. And never put that Self, within your own mental image, in a subservient position, bowing beneath some vaunted figure sitting up on a pedestal. ([Location 1955](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=1955)) - His reference to a “ malkutha ” in phrases traditionally translated as “Kingdom” (either “of Heaven” or “of God”), served, like his parables, metaphorically for an anticipated psychological or spiritual state. That differs fundamentally from a real YHWH-controlled political state in a physical location, as in the more explicit traditional use of that phrase referencing the hoped-for state of Jewish legal law rid of Roman rule. ([Location 2979](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004UGLLRQ&location=2979)) ## New highlights added February 5, 2024 at 8:24 AM - The message is simple but powerful; we have a short time on earth, we don't know what is going to happen, and it doesn't matter. 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