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“It is a conundrum, this reality of which we speak. And if you do not find joy in the puzzle itself, you will only have isolated moments of stamped-and-approved joy ("I graduated!" "I got the job!" "I'm getting married!" "I won the prize!" "See, I have the picture!" "It's posted online!" "It got so many likes!") and those scrumptious, unexpected ones that take you by surprise-- a sunset, a leaf dancing in the wind, a baby's glee with a wayward bubble, fireworks. As I often say, I am ultimately drawn to-- and stay closest to-- the people who can be satisfied with a state of dissatisfaction, who can find joy in the puzzle itself, who want to play with the puzzle--gnaw on the conundrum--more than they want to finish it.”

“Reality is secretly causing a fatal earthquake to your rival neighbor and then send help to them. Reality is declaring you destroyed a rival balloon that collects communication signals when it is actually yours. Reality is causing a pandemic and blame your rival for it.”

“We are here so that the one awareness can experience itself as seemingly separate and individual conscious beings – of varying species, locations, perspectives, perceptions, and worldviews – each having its own unique journey from its own vantage point in the relative world. We are here so that the one can experience itself as the many. The relative world is an illusion, and the one awareness is experiencing what it is to be seemingly separate beings immersed in the illusion.”

“The one awareness is the only thing in all of existence that is real. Everything else – everything we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, sense or perceive – is part of the illusion of the relative world. None of it is real. Only the awareness peering out from each conscious being and observing the unfolding of the relative world’s illusion is real. Absolutely all appearances, aspects, angles and details of the illusion are not real. The observation of the illusion is real; the illusion itself is not.”

“The illusion of the relative world is completely benign. Conscious beings, through their unique interpretation of events unfolding, create meaning and significance. Any meaning given to the changing circumstances of the relative world comes from conscious beings by way of their particular points of view. And any narrative given to a changing set of circumstances is done so according to the orientation of a conscious being in a given moment.”