65) There is a tendency nowadays to think of truth in terms of factual information which has been verified. While this may tell us the truth of what we are in terms of mechanics it cannot tell us the truth of what we are psychologically and physiologically in the moment in a way that enables us to act selflessly and appropriately. What is the point of knowing everything there is to know about the human body and the energies which run through it if through one flash of uncontrollable anger we create havoc, even danger. As one remarkable man once said, it is like knowing everything there is to know about money without having any money in the bank.
66) To be touched by kindness, warmth and compassion is to be touched by the Truth, and if such kindness, warmth and compassion is exhibited by those we violently disagree with then so much the better for us.
67) Sometimes I think of the thoughts that are racing around inside my head, which want to shove my subjective opinions down someone else's throat, as being like a seperate creature or a fly that I would like to swat. But the fly is elusive and eventually flies away before it returns, again and again. The fly lives on auto-pilot. There is no need for me to do the same for every second of my life.
68) We all have negative emotions which from time to time possess us and even eat away at us. I think of Purgatory as being the friction between the desire to express such negative emotions and the knowledge that the expression of them cannot serve me
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