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repeat itself; it repeats itself because we are unconscious so we go on making the same mistake again and again. Our consciousness remains the same. That's why in every life we live on the same miserable plane. We never grow up.
This is time enough. You should start working deeply on your being, searching for it, because once you have known your being then you are not going to be born again in a body. Then you are not going to be in another prison, then you will be freed from all prisons. And this ultimate freedom is the only lesson worth learning through all these lives.
But we are functioning almost in a drunken way.
Ruben Levinsky is telling his friends at the club how his five-year-old son got his nursemaid pregnant.
"But that is impossible!" cries Sollie.
"Unfortunately it is not," replies the embarrassed Ruben. "The little wretch punctured all my condoms with a pin."
It is a very strange world. I have heard a proverb, very ancient: "God made women without a sense of humor so they could love men without laughing at them."
Hymie Goldberg is sitting in a bar one night when the man sitting on the next stool slides off and lands on the floor.
Feeling that there is no way the man will make it home on his own, Hymie finds his address in his wallet and decides to help him. Slipping an arm around his waist, they head for the door. But immediately the man's legs crumple and he collapses.
"You drunken bum," complains Hymie, "why the hell didn't you stop drinking sooner?" The man mumbles something, but Hymie is in no mood to listen. Feeling as righteous as Mother Teresa, Hymie throws his shoulders beneath the man and carries him home. Knocking indignantly, he strides in when a women opens the door, and dumps the man on the couch.
"Here is your husband," says Hymie. "And if I were you, I would have a serious talk with him about his drinking."
"I will," promises the woman. "But tell me," she continues, looking outside, "where is his wheelchair?"
It is a hilarious world. Everything is going so unconsciously. The only thing worth remembering is not to lose the opportunity that you have to
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