THE UNIVERSE & US

“The universe implies the organism, and each single organism implies the universe – only the 'single glance' of our spotlight, narrowed attention, which has been taught to confuse its glimpses with separate 'things', must somehow be opened to the full vision, which Schrödinger goes on to suggest:

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day': now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. ¹

1. Erwin Schrödinger, My view of the World. Cambrige University Press, 1964, p. 22”

SOURCE: 
Alan Watts, The book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, ABACUS, 1966

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