At birth, babies cry as they transition from being eternally one with everything to being a finite being; a life at times happy and at times miserable that ultimately ends with their demise. Upon their timely death, most people are stoic; knowing they will soon be again one with everything. In contrast, when a child is born, we are joyous and when someone prematurely dies, we are saddened. Misery loves company....

In the now, we see nothing as it is, only as it once was. Right now, when we see something that's a billion light years away, we see it as it was a billion years ago. Likewise, when we see something now and here,  just a few feet away, we see it as it as it was when it was an infinitesimally small part of a second ago. Time is the gap between when something is what it is whatever it is in the present and when we experience it as now. The now and the present are different. Everything in the now is what it was in the past. As such, everything in the now is an illusion, for the past only exists in our mind as memories; it has no material reality. The present is the pre-sent, what something is before it is manifested, before time begins. Thus, the present is a void, nothingness. While the present is nothingness, it is also everything before every-thing manifests itself in the now. Thus, in the void, everything is one. This is ultimate reality. We, as humans, can be in the present and one with everything by being in the void. This is done through meditation. When meditating, the now is our awareness of the motion of breathing and the void is the space between each breath. We can come to know the void, but we can never describe it as descriptions bring us back to the now. That's why "He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak.” --  Lao Tzu "Returning to the source is stillness." -- Lao Tzu "Nothing in all of creation is so like God as stillness." -- Meister Eckhart "In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am: unbound." --  Nisargadatta Maharaja "Let silence take you to the core of life." -- Rumi...

Light is the visible spectrum, that which the eye can see, of the electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum spans high frequency (short wavelength) gamma rays to low frequency (long wavelength) radio waves, with X-Rays, extreme ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves in-between.  Visible light is roughly 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum, akin to seeing the universe through a pinhole; though we might think we see it all. If we could see beyond the spectrum of visible light, the universe would look overwhelmingly different. With X-Ray vision, humans would look like skeletons. With radio wave vision, GPS systems would light up like a Christmas tree and Mars would be invisible because it has no magnetic field. "Ultimately, if you could see all wavelengths simultaneously, there would be so much light bouncing about that you wouldn't see anything. Or rather, you would see everything and nothing simultaneously. The excess of light would just leave everything in a senseless glow. Chances are...

Four organs define our relationship with others. Our upper organs, head and heart, represent wisdom and compassion which connect us as one with others. With wisdom we see the world through the eyes of others. With compassion we help others as we would ourselves. Our lower organs, stomach and genitals, represent our needs and desires and drive us to compete with others. Our upper organs can bring us to heaven. Our lower organs often make for a hellish experience. While our upper organs have divine potential, often they are like our lower organs in terms of our relationship with others. Whether the relationship is divine or offensive is revealed by what comes out of our mouths, the top of our alimentary canal. What comes out the bottom of the canal, near our lower organs, is invariably offensive....

"Ignorance is bliss." -- Thomas Gray Commonly, when we don't know the potentially problematic intricacies of something, yet think we clearly understand it, we are happy. Yet, there are other insights from this adage. A corollary is "ignore it is bliss." That is, when we ignore whatever distracts us from our inherent state of bliss, we return to bliss. As ignorance is bliss, bliss is ignorance. That is, bliss makes us ignorant of issues which we would otherwise be cognizant. That's what happens in failed marriages, when people in love marry while ignoring their compatibility. Ignorance leads to bliss as when we make a mistake and quickly admit we made it out of ignorance; thereby, we diffuse any potential confrontation and return to our relatively blissful state. If we otherwise try to defend our mistake, we give rise to arguing which may ultimately result in our receiving a greater punishment for our mistake than otherwise. Personally, I found ignorance leads to eternal bliss when we realize we don't know much of anything about any-thing. Then, every-thing becomes fascinating. Curiosity energizes us. We consider different perspectives (like the different interpretations of "ignorance is bliss"). We seek the light in the darkness of nothingness. We journey to know more and more until we come to the point when we realize there is nothing to know as every-thing is what it is whatever it is. It is then we can know nothing, what every-thing is before it is and when time does not exist. This is being in the pre-sent. This is eternal bliss. True ignorance provides temporary bliss, but realising our ignorance leads us to eternal bliss....

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean." -- Rumi We are not a separate entity in an overwhelmingly huge universe, we are the universe. Whether a finite part or the whole thing is of little matter unless we forget we are both. Every morning I awaken from peaceful sleep-death, where every-thing is before it is and time does not exist, and slowly transition from being one with everything to the finite being I identify as my self. As a self, everything is in constant change and I am an aspect of the universe unfolding. Soon enough, I again transition to peaceful sleep-death. When in finite form and not oblivious of my true nature, one with everything, makes for a wonderful day as everyday is my birthday, the first and last day of my finite life....

Those with a mind like a cloudless sky reflect brilliantly, but also cast the darkest shadows. Undoubtedly, Noam Chomsky is a brilliant intellectual. Politically leftwing, Chomsky, like many of his elk, is self-righteous and proudly reflects his do-gooder ideas. Yet, unwittingly revealing his darker nature, as a cheerleader for Covid vaccines he proposed the unvaccinated be completely isolated from the general population. Asked how the unvaccinated would get groceries, Chomsky said: “How can we get food to them? Well, that’s actually their problem." As Chomsky is of Jewish Eastern European ancestry, it's funny he's oblivious his proscription of the unvaccinated is not unlike the Nazi's Warsaw Ghetto, a very dark shadow cast by those with idealistic myths of some people being superior to others. We often get blinded by someone's brilliance to the point we don't see the shadows they cast are darker than that of the less brilliant....