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DIVINITY IS A PLAY DIVINE THE WAY
not really independent, separate things. In fact, we are not real but functional entities.
However this is not how we normally think of ourselves. In our normal state of consciousness, the world looks like it is composed of individual, finite, and separate beings and things. We know ourselves as a collection of feelings, thoughts and emotions that define us. We are a body with some feelings, some ideas of our past, and our imagined future. These things define our boundaries, that demarcates the line between what is ―me‖ and what is ―not-me‖. Almost everything we do is geared to preserving (and enhancing) those things that define us and not surprisingly we meet with failure in such attempts. The nature of Time is such.
But if we want to experience the divine Source, we cannot do this as ―we are‖, because we are just one bundle of boundaries, and the Source is limitless, eternal, and boundless. And this is why, if we are seeking the Source, we must ultimately empty our selves. We must erase our boundaries. Our sense of self must die, which is just another way
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