Michele Pasin / Quotes

The taboo of taboos: you’re it

But the secret which my story slips over to the child is that the Ultimate Ground of Being is you. Not, of course, the everyday you which the Ground is assuming, or “pretending” to be, but that inmost Self which escapes inspection because it’s always the inspector. This, then, is the taboo of taboos: you’re IT!

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General ontology vs regional ontology

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God is infinite, and finite people are incapable of comprehending an infinite being

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Natural Kinds

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The cat and the mouse

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You are god

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