So, we come to have a very arbitrary definition of self. That much of my activity which I feel I do. And that then doesnt include breathing most of the time; it doesnt include the heartbeats; it doesnt include the activity of the glands; it doesnt include digestion; it doesnt include how you shape your bones; circulate your blood. Do you or do you not do these things? Now if you get with yourself and you find out you are all of yourself, a very strange thing happens. You find out that your body knows that you are one with the universe. In other words, the so-called involuntary circulation of your blood is one continuous process with the stars shining. If you find out its YOU who circulates your blood, you will at the same moment find out that you are shining the sun. Because your physical organism is one continuous process with everything else thats going on. Just as the waves are continuous with the ocean. Your body is continuous with the total energy system of the cosmos, and its all you. Only youre playing the game that youre only this bit of it. But as I tried to explain, there are in physical reality no such thing as separate events. Alan Watts
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:18:59 +0000