The Healing Self,

We are so used to the clumping process that we don’t catch ourselves doing anything. But we are constantly taking transient experiences, cramming them into prearranged slots, turning discontinuity into continuity, and making solid what is actually fluid.

Ascribing meaning to anything and everything is the thread that binds us to earliest humans. Stories explain how life works and thus fulfill a need that is woven into the fabric of being human.

Once you see that awareness isn’t bound by time and space, then you—the real you that is pure consciousness—must not be bound by time and space.

At the very least, we need to realize that no one lives in the same reality. Everyone’s version is personal.

Human nature is in love with its own self-created drama, and the more stark the contrast between good and evil, the more we cling to our story. If the human race is waiting for the day when either good or evil is triumphant, the only predictable outcome is that the drama is designed to last an eternity.

You are free once you base your life on one thing, your sense of self.

A secular, scientific culture not only takes pride in rationality, it worships rationality with a faith as absolute as the religious dogmas Kant wanted humanity to escape.

The dictionary definition of reify is “to make something more concrete or real.”