This essay is a quiet exploration of the nature of being – not as an abstract idea, but as your own most intimate experience. It traces the apparent journey from the sense of being a separate, limited self to the recognition that what you truly are is infinite, unbounded, and ever-present. Drawing on simple analogies and direct inquiry, it invites you to turn inward, not to become something new, but to discover what has always been shining at the heart of experience. Ultimately, it is a love letter from being to itself.
Whatever there is, is. If there is a molecule, it is. If there is a person or an animal, it is. If there is a house, a mountain or a forest, it is. If there is the world or the universe, it is. If there is God, God is.
Isness, or being, is the common factor in all people, animals and things. It is shared by everything, and thus not limited to anything. Just as there are no separate physical spaces in the universe, but one continuous space that pervades all apparent enclosures, yet is not bounded by them, so there is not a separate being for each person, animal or object. Being is the universal presence in all things, never confined, never divided.
How the Infinite Acquires a Finite Face
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