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The way I learned to do my own thinking is to learn how quickly I could get rid of the conditioned reflex that I knew what it was all about. There have been so many billions of people, they had to make quadrillions times quadrillions of mistakes. In fact they’ve had to make so many mistakes that they’ve become discouraged, they’ve developed such an inferiority complex over the mistake-making that nature has provided a vanity and ego to cover them up. If you really want to get anywhere, you’ve got to conquer your ego and pride and really admit your mistakes to find out what’s going on.
I really don’t feel that society knows what’s going on. They don’t really know what they’re doing when they make a baby the first time. The child doesn’t know it’s being born. Through that ego business, we kid ourselves into thinking the whole Universe is waiting for our decisions. We know now that there are a billion galaxies and our Sun is only one of 100 billion stars in our own galaxy. Obviously the Universe is not waiting to know whether the Republicans or the Democrats are going to come in.
