03-06-2012, 08:19 PM
Seek in the Self and you will find everyone else. The Self cannot become Infinite until it is All things, and sees itself as all things.
I do not understand how one can perceive any external existence to be useless or less than as valuable as the Self. Not that I do not understand this out of lack of experience, but in light of my own touches with Oneness. To make any such identification externally is to create such an identification internally.
I'm not really directing this at either of you, it just comes to my mind. I can't imagine being honest to myself and not honest to others. To me, being dishonest, or veiled, to others, is a fragmentation of the Whole Self. It does not make sense to me to wear masks anymore (since I did, most certainly, wear many myself at one point), but now it just seems like lying to myself to not be my True Self in every moment.
I suppose for me, being my True Self in every moment IS the essence of productivity in my life.
I do not understand how one can perceive any external existence to be useless or less than as valuable as the Self. Not that I do not understand this out of lack of experience, but in light of my own touches with Oneness. To make any such identification externally is to create such an identification internally.
I'm not really directing this at either of you, it just comes to my mind. I can't imagine being honest to myself and not honest to others. To me, being dishonest, or veiled, to others, is a fragmentation of the Whole Self. It does not make sense to me to wear masks anymore (since I did, most certainly, wear many myself at one point), but now it just seems like lying to myself to not be my True Self in every moment.
I suppose for me, being my True Self in every moment IS the essence of productivity in my life.