That I exist, that I am, cannot be questioned. All else is subject to debate. Cultural note: Retired wrestler Hulk Hogan has “I Am that I Am” tattooed on his right forearm. This is what God said when Moses asked him for his name.
Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’” (John 10:34)
“I say, ‘You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you.’” (Psalm 82:6)
We cannot see a grain of sand from inside the grain of sand. The perceiver is not the perceived. The observer is not the observed. The seer is not the seen. Whatever I perceive is not me. Not even this body? Not even that.
The off-kilter mind fears and wants, divides and opposes. The role of the mind is to be a skilled canoeist—to go with the flow, to accept everything and resist nothing.
Surely the world has never not been disturbed, riven and violent. Even our corporeal selves are full of cellular antagonisms and warring entities. Why are we everyday freshly offended by this immutable fact?
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