People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.

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• When we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, that is the closest we can ever come to the egoless state in which we see the structure perfectly.claim0.806
  The equation of childlike making with the perfect perception required for structure-preserving transformation.
• If we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, then we will achieve the egoless state in which we see structure perfectly and make the perfect structure-preserving response.hypothesis0.804
  Conditional claim linking childlike self-pleasing to flawless perception and action.
• There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.801
  Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.
• If we can only learn how to please ourselves, that prescription by itself will always create living structure.hypothesis0.793
  The conditional claim that true self-pleasing is sufficient for generating living structure in all cases.
• How can we become egoless by indulging our personal pleasure?question0.792
  The apparent paradox: the 'it' can only be found by being egoless, yet the prescription is to please yourself.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.788
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• I feel more potent in myself, not in relation to society, but in relation to the small things I do every day, when I am in the home, and when I come home from work.quote0.786
  Jose Tapia's testimony about life change in Mexicali.
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.785
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.