So the only way to convince him that it isn't is to say, "Well let's go and find the edge". He'll go down to the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat. If a person believes that the earth is flat, you can't talk him out of that, he knows that it's flat. There are, in physical reality, no such things as separate events. It isn't there at all, there isn't a separate you. The only way you'll know it isn't there is if you look hard enough, to find out that it isn't there. When you look for your own particularized center of being which is separate from everything else, you wont be able to find it. We haven't realized that life and death, black and white, good and evil, being and non-being, come from the same center. it seems, doesn't it, that you are behind your eyes. Most people think that when they open they're eyes and look around that what they are seeing is outside. What you call the "External world" is as much YOU as your own body. But just as a magnet polarizes its-self in north and south but its all one magnet, so experience polarizes itself as "Self" and "Other", but it's all one. Your skin doesn't separate you from the world, it's a bridge. but that means you got rid of yourself, youre just nothing but a machine. You cannot confine yourself to what happens inside the skin. So you become an atheist, and then you feel terrible after that because you got rid of God. The real you, the real deep down you, is the whole universe. The real you, is not a puppet which life pushes around. Now I want to propose another idea all together. So if you're a smart kid you commit suicide. You run from the maternity ward to the crematorium and that's it. You feel that the world is a neurological trap into which you somehow got caught. So if you think that that's the way things are, you feel hostile to the world. And your idea that you're a machine is just a machine too. but that means you got rid of yourself, you're just nothing but a machine. why does anybody believe that? So you become an atheist, and then you feel terrible after that because you got rid of God. But after a while it got embarrassing, the superstition, the myth, the absolutely unfounded idea. Nothing More - Album Opening one-two punch Ocean Floor/This Is The. It has meaning, it has sense, and you are valuable in the eyes of the father. The lyrics frequently reference water and oceans over the course of seventeen tracks. what is the feeling? what happens to you? The idea of God as the potter, the architect of the universe, it makes you feel that life is, after all, important, that there is someone who cares. All your efforts, all your acheivements, all your attainments turning into dust, nothingness. and the laughter echoes only in one's mind. And to love again and again, and have people to whom we are deeply attached go to sleep and never wake up. When you opened your eyes on the world for the first time as a child how brilliant the colors were what a jewel the sun was what marvel the stars how incredibly alive the trees were.
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