Sublime

There is no stable self that is carried along from one moment to the next.

‘By letting go of your ordinary attention in just the right way, you can indeed reduce the obfuscation of these deeper layers, which are always in your consciousness anyway.’

Indeed, it explains how deeply ingrained belief systems create the world we live in.

The past is a mental construct generated by subjective, intellectual models of reality fed with subjective memories and present perceptions. It isn’t anywhere out there but an internal myth meant to give context to present perceptions. Thus, there can be no explanatory truths.

we are forever limiting ourselves to this or that identity, culture, or religion, exclusively believing our belief systems and mythologies (including our scientific ones) and not looking “behind” them to know the presence that is creating or projecting th

They overlook the possibility that the transcendent truth may only be able to express itself through the illusions it generates.

One experiences a belief system from within when one forgets that it is a belief system in the first place, perceiving the unfolding of its corresponding cognitive associations as standalone events independent of oneself.

I’ll highlight the human potential for truth seeking, beauty, connection, exploration, love, flow, creativity, purpose, gratitude, awe, and other transcendent experiences

consensus reality may be a form of symbolic language attempting to point at something else.