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We have all met those who are trying very hard to be real persons, to give their lives Reality (or meaning) and to live as distinct from existing. These seekers are of many kinds, highbrow and lowbrow, ranging from students of arcane wisdom to the audiences of popular speakers on pep and personality, selling yourself and making your life a success.... See more
Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are
Religion will... not depend on tradition. It will not be believed and disbelieved. It will not be a part of life,belonging to certain hours, times, occasions. It will not be in sacred books nor in the mouths of priests. It will not dwell in churches and meetings and forms and days. Its life will not be in prayers,hymns nor discourses. It will not... See more
The Six Steps to Cosmic Consciousness: A Pioneering Theory of Transcendence by the 19th-Century Psychiatrist and Adventurer Maurice Bucke
We are the prisoner, the warden and the pardon- holed up in our heads - stuck in our skulls - and yet, paradoxically, already free.
It sounds trite.
And I guess, in some weird way, that’s why so many of us will never actually leave the boxes we’ve built for ourselves, to imprison ourselves, when the pardon we seek - is a simple [backward] step away.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Amit Varma • 'How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives'
Annie Dillard
Interesting point, but when I was outside my body, I felt more like myself—freer and so much safer than I could ever feel in this reality. Our true reality is out there; this is just a very strange and intense game designed for self-development. :) Death is simply another door—a doorway back to where we all came from. This reality isn’t real at... See more
Xavier Dagba on Substack
and counter point :)
Gurwinder
4h
“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
4h
“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
substack.com • Home | Substack
Love this :)
The Six Steps to Cosmic Consciousness: A Pioneering Theory of Transcendence by the 19th-Century Psychiatrist and Adventurer Maurice Bucke
themarginalian.org
The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study ever taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of THE WHOLE, or at least of an immense WHOLE, as dwarfs all conception, imagination or speculation, springing from and belonging to ordinary self consciousness, such a conception as makes the old attempts to mentally grasp the universe and its meaning petty and even ridiculous