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Thoughts that I have that I have thought but others put masterfully into words. Awesome words.  

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12/23/2018 5:03 pm
Thoughts that I have that I have thought but others put masterfully into words. Awesome words.
It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see?

So in the same way, there was a big<b> bang </font></b>at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that<b> bang. </font></b>We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting.

But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big<b> bang. </font></b>But you are. Depends how you define yourself.

You are actually—if this is the way things started, if there was a big<b> bang </font></b>in the beginning— you're not something that's a result of the big<b> bang. </font></b>You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as—Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so—I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it.

Alan Watts

The Nature of Consciousness; also published as What Is Reality? (1989)

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