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• How often are we really satisfied with our current situa
tion and by the things we do and feel - and how long does
this satisfaction usually last? • How often do our emotions tumble us from highest happi
ness to deepest misery (and vice versa) in one single second without us having any influence on this process? How often is our attention arbitrarily drifting from object to object against our will - like a butterfly in the
wind? • How often do we become so deeply involved in one
particular idea, emotion or event that we cease to notice almost all the world outside this dense envelope? How often do we experience that any stability we worked so hard to achieve either breaks down in the end, - or solidifies our life so thoroughly that nothing is capable of moving us any more?
A Dense Cocoon Surrounds Us We may feel perfectly normal, clear and in command in this environment, - but this is merely due to the fact that we neither know more gratifying and less arbitrary patterns of life nor even deem them possible.
We identify completely with the limited portion of our. consciousness we are familiar with.
Hardly ever do we become aware that we live in a cocoon of dense emotions which e.g. manifests in form of the 'endless. running commentary' with which our mind incessantly accompanies the banalities of daily life. We only need to recall our
