We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.
We accepted a definition of ...
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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.