Very valuable quote, Federica! Thank you!
I just want to mention that these 'two things' are not some arbitrary rules. They can be clearly understood through the way we have described our stream of becoming many times, for example as a funnel.
The 'first thing' is the Time that has become Space, everything that has been embedded in the World-State (the riverbed) through our spiritual activity. We can immediately see how devastating it is when we consider our bodily life and ego as an illusion that we must dissociate from. In this way our "I" continually denies its involvement and responsibility for everything that it continually embeds in the World-State.
The 'second thing' is connected with the Time that approaches us from the periphery and in the process becomes more and more concrete, as a wave function that gradually collapses to become concrete reality. Our conscience is nothing else but the dim intuition of our higher being that approaches us from the periphery and continually incarnates. As said many times before, without this conscience, we're like a person who walks backwards and imagines that whatever enters their field of consciousness is their brand new free and original creation. This is precisely what we achieve when we absolutize our Oneness with the Divine and imagine that everything we think, feel and act is our immediate Divine creation with no preparation in our Divine subconsciousness. In other words, we feel ourselves to be the top container of reality. For this reason it has been stated over and over again that we need the humility to feel ourselves in the middle between the unmanifest and the manifest. We need clarity and honesty to accept and recognize everything that consciously or not we have embedded in the World-state (memory) and we need the prayer-like openness for the higher being, as if we seek to accommodate only the purest and best forces that will benefit all (conscience).