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A Bad Thing Being a Good Thing

A Bad Thing Being a Good Thing

What our perceptions give and take away (and a long story about Nepal

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Mar 14, 2021
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Cassiopeia supernova remnant

What if life is practice, and that’s all? What if that’s what we’re meant to be doing here? What if knowing is impossible in our current state of consciousness? We know something for a fleeting moment, and then we attach meaning to it, we distort it, we change it, and we unravel our knowing.

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