Consider something extraordinary, old friend. What if the greatest illusion of human existence is believing that there has ever been a separate me and Thee? What if the billions of people walking on this Earth are not separate fragments of existence but countless expressions of the One? The One wearing a thousand masks. Playing a thousand roles. Looking through a thousand eyes. And each little me , so absorbed in its own story, has forgotten the mysterious Presence behind the mask. Look at the world around you. We spend our lives constructing identities. Our names, occupations, beliefs, possessions, achievements, and personal histories become the story of who we think we are. We polish our image, defend our opinions, compare ourselves with others, and struggle to become somebody. And somewhere along the way, something remarkable happens. We become so identified with the character we are playing that we forget there is something deeper than the character. The mask has mistaken itse...
Reflect on this, old friend: what if you've been living your life without really being there? Consider something rather extraordinary. What if you’ve spent much of your life doing one thing with your body while your mind is somewhere else entirely? Walking, eating, working, speaking, and performing a thousand ordinary activities, yet rarely being fully present for any of them. And what if the greatest hypnotist you will ever encounter is not someone standing before you with a swinging pendulum, but the very mind you have mistaken for yourself? Welcome to the greatest entertainment center . . . the human mind. A broadcasting station that never closes. A theater endlessly projecting yesterday's memories, tomorrow's possibilities, imaginary conversations, unfinished arguments, hopes, fears, and rehearsals of events that may never happen. And here is the remarkable part. You have become so absorbed in the entertainment that you have forgotten you are the one watching the show....