Everyone has likes and dislikes. What message do these likes and dislikes carry?

We are very prompt in expressing our likes and dislikes (for objects, people, situations) in our daily lives.
They dictate our Sansaric life.
We are very centered on what we like or dislike, and we are fully involved with the objects we like or those we dislike.
All along, we think that likes and dislikes are hidden in the objects (or people, or situations) themselves.
But that’s not true.
The beer that you may like may be disliked by someone else
Our likes and dislikes are not in the objects; they are in us.
They tell us more about ourselves.
They show that we are divided.
Likes are within us, as so are dislikes; we created them.
They also show that we are predators, on the run, externalizing into the Sansar.
Only in the resting state does our consciousness stay unified and become one.
The moment we like something, our Ego has lifted its head, and we become “likers”.
And the same thing for “dislikes”; we become “dislikers”.
Likers and dislikers dwell in their Egoes, becoming.
And consciousness is our being, true undivided self.
Via likes and dislikes, we divide ourselves.
But out of ignorance, we declare Sansar to be dualistic.
The actual duality is within us.
If we were the creators of duality, we could also be its eliminators.
The elimination occurs in the Samayag state (as Priya mentioned in the DM).
But this is not a simple mathematical puzzle or a matter of physical dimensions, where we convert two into one.
There is something more than that.
What is it?
What has the potential to convert our predatory behavior (seeking) into a state of rest?
Likes and dislikes are only labels we have created, centered on an illusory ghost called “I”.
This divides and limits life.
This is our fatal mistake.
When an event takes place, the event comes first, and the “I enjoyed it” label comes later.
You go to watch a game.
You didn’t know your favorite team was gonna win, but they played well and worked very hard.
All the play happened, and when victory came, happiness arose; you say, “My team won.”
How is it “your” team? Do you own it?
What was your contribution to that victory? None.
Enjoy the victory, enjoy their play, but keep “I” out; it has nothing to do with “You”, because there is no “I”.
Happiness happened; you don’t own it.
“I” is that false idea of ownership that only keeps desiring for more and more such events (and suffers when they don’t happen).
Life manifests as events; you don’t.
Events belong to life, not you.
Accepting life as it is is not negativity; it is slowly removing the falsely created Ego and becoming attuned to the positive power of existence manifesting via the myriad of transient events in life.
Existence IS forever, as the silent shunya state.
“I” is a false ownership that keeps getting applied to various transient events of life.
Nothingness is the only reality; everything else is transient and unreal.