Sublime

The hook from an old song looped in his head, “Anywhere else is too far away.” At this moment, his thoughts didn’t feel as if they belonged to him.

Among the spiritually focused books he read was Be Here Now by ex-Harvard psychology professor Dr. Richard Alpert.

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But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side; he saw and became aware of that which was visible and sought to be at home in this world. He did not search for true essence and did not aim at a world beyond. It was beautiful and wonderful to go through the world in this childlike way.

He killed his senses, he killed his memory, he slipped out of his self into thousands of other forms, was an animal, was carrion, was stone, was wood, was water, and awoke every time to find his old self again, sun shone or moon, was his self again, turned round in the cycle, felt thirst, overcame the thirst, felt new thirst.