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Interlude with mustache and the universe

Interlude with mustache and the universe

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Lee van Laer
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More teenage Jesus is coming up soon…!

But once again, I take a brief break in order to draw in a deeper breath.

For a little dog like me, a deeper breath is much smaller than it is for a human such as yourself; and yet it contains all all of the goodness that life can bring in the exact amount that a little dog needs, because the amount of breath each creature can draw in is carefully apportioned by heaven  that, if they are spiritually attentive, it will give them everything they need in order to live and live well.

It has come to my attention once again, as it so often does, that human beings are caught up in their thinking and even forget to do things such as feed the dog. This requires us to pester them. Watching the way that humans behave it reminds me that we should constantly pester them about many other things, such as showing more love towards one another, and whatnot; and we do, but humans have never learned to speak dog very well, and there you are.

Mr. Gurdjieff, during the lifetime that I was his dog, never forgot to love anyone, although he loved them objectively, which was quite confusing to some humans. Unlike we dogs, human beings prefer to do everything as subjectively as possible. They form these parts in them called "personalities" which actually have almost nothing whatsoever to do with being a real person who feels and thinks, and loves and cares, but instead are packed full of many needy little demons who populate their inner world with demands and desires, and above all a certain definite and all-consuming greed for themselves.

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