May 29

Life is the consciousness of your divine essence, contained within limits.

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The only direct certainty is the certainty of consciousness.

— Descartes

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Berkeley and Fichte are right, and Emerson also: the world is only a semblance of something; fairy tales and legends are just as true as natural history—even more so, as they are more understandable semblances. The only thing that truly exists is the soul. What then is everything else? A shadow, a guise, an image, a semblance and a dream. We can only perceive what is spiritual. The world is like a game, whose aim is the education and growth of the soul. The only things that truly exist are the consciousness and its sun: love.

— After Amiel

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Frozen, solid earth under my feet, enormous trees around me, an overcast sky above my head, I can sense my body and am immersed in thought—and meanwhile, I know and feel with the whole of my being that the hard, frozen earth, and the trees, and the sky, and my body, and my thoughts are all accidental, that they are all merely a product of my five senses, a representation, a world of my creation, that it is all this way only because I constitute this and not that part of the world, that this is how I am separated from the world. I know that if I were to die, all of this would not disappear but would change its form, the way a scene changes at a theater: bushes and rocks will be changed to palaces, towers, etc. Death will cause such a transformation in me, as long as I am not completely destroyed but move into another being that is separated from the world in a different way. Right now I consider my body with my senses to be myself, but later something else will be separated into me in a completed different way. And then the world, which will remain the same for those who live in it, will become different for me. After all, the world is as it is only because I consider a particular separation of the world as that which constitutes my being. But the world can be separated into countless beings.

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Seek God in your own heart, you will not find him anywhere else.

— Almanzor

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Our life is the perception of our being an eternal, infinite, i.e. timeless and extra-spacial soul, limited by the conditions of temporal and spacial phenomena.

Human consciousness is a consciousness of divinity.