closer than breathing

    

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... the most fundamental scientific ‘fact’ is not the existence of a universe of things in space and time but awareness of such a universe.

Awareness is not a ‘thing’ that can evolve from or arise out of an unaware or insentient universe of things. On the contrary, all things in the universe emerge and take shape out of a universal awareness. 


—Peter Wilberg
The Awareness Principle

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and knows,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.


—Rumi

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Far away, hidden from the eyes of daylight,  

there are watchers in the skies.

—Euripides

The Bacchae c. 406 BC,

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