But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
But I'll tell you what ...
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.