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I've,
I've been telling people online in 

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various ways and in lectures that they 
should start fixing up the world by 

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cleaning up their room and I want it to 
just elaborate on that a little bit 

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before I get back to the lecture itself.
So I'd say it's become this Internet 

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weird Internet meme,
you know,

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and,
and,

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and,
and it's a joke and good.

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It's a jewel.
I really happy about the fact that so 

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much of this has got like the leaving of
humor and it's really important because 

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that's what stops things from 
degenerating into,

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into conflict humor.
And I was thinking about this idea of 

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cleaning up your room in relationship to
the mustard seed idea and you see the 

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thing about cleaning up your room.
This is also something I learned from 

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Carl young and his studies on alchemy 
because for young,

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when the alchemist was attempting to 
make the philosopher's stone,

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he was not only engaged in the 
transformation of the material world,

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but he was engaged in a process of self 
transformation that occurred at the same

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time as the,
as the chemical Trent,

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as the chemical transformation.

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So it was a psychological work in some 
sense.

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Let's say you want to sort out your room
and beautified because the beauty is 

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also important and let's say that all 
you have is just a little room like 

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you're not rich,
you're poor and you don't have any 

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power.
That's another thing,

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but you've got your damn room and you've
got this space right in front of you.

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You know that,
that that's a part of the cosmos that 

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you can come to grips with and you might
think,

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well,
what's there in front of you right in 

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front of you?
And the answer to that is,

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it depends on how open your eyes are,
that that's the proper answer because 

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you could say,
w William Blake said this,

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for example,
Elvis Huxley made comments that were 

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very similar that in a transcendent 
state,

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you can see infinity in the finite and 
you might say,

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well,
you can say,

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and you can see infinity in what you 
have within your grasp.

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If you look and you could save,
maybe that's the case with your room,

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and so you want to clean up your room.
Well,

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okay,
how do you do that?

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Exactly?
Well,

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a room,
his room is a place to sleep and so if 

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you set your room up properly,
then you figure out how to sleep and 

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when you should sleep and how you should
sleep and then you figure out when you 

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should wake up and then you figure out,
well what clothes you should wear 

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because they have to be arranged 
properly in your dresser and then you 

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have to have some place to put your 
clothes and if you're going to have some

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clothes,
you have to figure out what you're 

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gonna.
Wear those clothes to do.

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Right,
and then that means you got to figure 

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out what you're going to do and then 
your room has to serve that purpose 

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because otherwise it isn't set up 
properly.

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And if it doesn't set up,
if it doesn't serve your purposes,

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you will be unhappy and not happy in the
room.

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Because the way that we perceive the 
world is as a place to move from point a

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to point B in.
And then if the place that we're in 

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facilitates that movement,
then we're happy to be there.

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And if the place that we're in serves as
an obstacle to that movement,

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then we're unhappy to be there.
And so what it means to set up your room

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is that you have to have somewhere to go
that's worthwhile,

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or you can set up your room and your 
room has to be set up to facilitate 

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that.
And then the next thing is,

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well,
maybe you have to make it beautiful,

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but that's not easy,
right?

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Means you have to have some taste.
And that doesn't mean you have to have 

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money.

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It doesn't.
Because you can be garish with money and

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you can be tasteful with nothing.
All you need is taste and taste beats 

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money.
When it comes to beautifying things,

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you know,
I mean not that money is trivial because

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it's not.
But taste is crucial and people who are 

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very artistically oriented can make 
beautiful things out of virtually 

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nothing.
And not only that,

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the literature suggests that if you're 
going to make beautiful things,

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putting real constraints on,
on what you allow yourself to do,

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facilitates creativity instead of 
interfering with it.

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Because let's say you have to make 
something out of nothing,

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right?
Which I suppose would be a Godly Act,

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right?
You have to make something out of 

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nothing.
You have to be creative in order to do 

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that and so then to to beautify your 
room means that you also have to develop

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your capacity to be creative and so then
you can make your room shine,

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but then what will happen is that if 
your family isn't together,

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they will interfere with that.

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You will interfere with that because you
won't have the discipline to do it 

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properly,
but then when you start building this,

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this,
this little microcosm of perfection with

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what you have at hand and it'll evoke 
all the pathologies of everyone in your 

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household.
The wonder what the hell you're up to in

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there and they won't necessarily be 
happy because if you're.

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If they're in a lowly place,
let's say,

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and so are you and you're trying to move
out of that,

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then the higher you move out of that,
the more the place they're in looks bad 

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and you might say,
well,

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what they should do is celebrate your 
victory over chaos and evil,

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but that isn't what will happen.
What will happen instead is that they 

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will attempt to pull you back down.
They'll attempt to,

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and I mean obviously all families don't 
do that,

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but,
but all families do that to some degree 

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and some families do almost nothing but 
that.

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And so what that means is that if you're
going to organize your room,

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then you're going to have to confront 
the devils in your house.

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And that's often,
that's often a terrifying thing because 

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some of those devils have,
have lineages that go back many,

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many,
many generations and God only knows what

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you have to struggle with in order to 
overcome that.

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And so and then and so to sort yourself 
out into fix up your room is a 

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nontrivial matter.
You know,

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and you can do that.
You'll learn by doing that.

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And then maybe you'll learn enough by 
doing that so that you can fix up your 

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family a little bit.
And then having done that,

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you'll have enough character so that 
when you try to operate in the world at 

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your job,
or maybe in the broader social spheres,

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that you will be a force for good 
instead of harm.

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Because you will have learned some 
humility by noting just how difficult it

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was to put your damn room together well 
and yourself for that matter.

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And so you'll proceed cautiously with 
your eyes open towards the good.