The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are / quote 59 of 101

Feeling yourself as the whole process of life

when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself AS the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing, known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a different way, for each organism is the universe experiencing itself in endless variety.

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