You are a conscious entity, aware of sensations, thoughts, feelings, memories, and desires. You know that you exist. But what are you? What is the real you, the thing that is aware of everything you are aware of? Neti neti, Sanskrit for “Not this, not that,” is a Hindu meditation practice where an individual seeks …
Most creation stories start out with, “In the beginning…” In the beginning a big, smart man we call God created the world. Even the scientific creation story starts with The Big Bang, when there was nothing and then bang! A quantum fluctuation created a singularity out of nothing with enough material energy to expand into …
There are many quotes attributed to Albert Einstein circulating the Internet which he never said. The title of this article, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one,” is one example. It appears to be adapted from this actual quote of Einstein in a letter written after the death of one of his …
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Mind is where reality happens, and it is the only place where it happens.
In the post, Who Are You, Really?, I talked about how you are not your body, you are not your thoughts, you are pure awareness. That pure awareness is linked to the awareness of every other conscious entity in the Universe through a medium we call Mind. This Mind is a objective thing. It does …
The beauty of a sunset. The splendor of a mountain vista. The feeling you get when you look at a rose or a tropical beach. From where does our sense of beauty arise? Is the appearance of beauty nothing more than the result of random processes? Is the color of the sunset just light scattering …
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