Any metaphor a writer uses for the One runs the risk of the reader reducing the One to the object of the comparison. If I say the One is lawless, you may immediately see a Western movie black-hat gunslinger. How useful is that to the “knower” of the unknowable? It might trigger a realization if […]
Seeing Life as a Learning Experience
Because I regard all of life as a learning experience – the primary lesson to be learned being who we are -I create hypotheses for me to test out, which then become theorems. Often I resolve to test a thought out because it persistently repeats itself in my consciousness. Approaching life in this manner keeps […]
Never Forget the Destination, the One
I was recovering from three days spent re-experiencing humiliation (1) and I lay on the couch and asked Michael: What was the most important thing for me to know after all that? What would ground me? Inspire me? Show me where to go next? And I lay there. And eventually the words formed in my […]
All That Remains is … Me
Around and around I go, from thought to feeling to action. I repeat it again and again. I call this “life” – from thought to feeling to action. Actually I’d say that “life” was one of the things it’s missing. It’s habitual. It’s robotic. It’s a disintegrating experience. OK, everyone. Stop the world. I want […]
O Thou I!
I’ve been unable to make of the observer an object of study. The minute I begin to study it, I realize that “I,” the observer, am studying it. And I then ask who is this “I” who is studying it? It again turns out to be another “I,” another instance of the observer, the perennial […]