The One and the All,

The self sees with its eyes, but that's a deceit. The eyes only capture light; the real question is: what is it that one truly observes when observing?

♥ We are ONE, ♥

Because behind every stimulus, there is a filter, there is a self whose existence we don't know. When one looks at something, one doesn't see the object; One sees the interpretation of the object, one sees its history, one’s beliefs, one’s traumas, one’s egos. So who is observing? Oneself or one's own conditioning?

Neuroscientists say that perception is a controlled hallucination; physicists say that the observer alters what is observed. However, it is suggested that consciousness is not a product of the brain, but rather the stage where the brain acts.

Herein lies the uncomfortable point: it cannot be proven that the observer we believe to be is real. We know that we think, but we don't know who thinks; we know that we feel, but we don't know who feels, and yet we live as if everything were clear.

The paradox is this: if one is not one's emotions, nor one's thoughts, nor memories, then what remains? Perhaps the observer is merely a side effect, a sophisticated illusion to give continuity to a body that doesn't understand its own existence.

Or perhaps it's the opposite; perhaps the observer is the only reality, and everything else is the illusion in which one lives. If this is so, then life doesn't happen outside, but within. The external world would be merely an interface, a board where consciousness is reflected but not found.

So consider this: when one closes one’s eyes, does the world disappear, or only your senses? And if the world depends on the observer to exist, doesn't that mean you are more a part of the universe than you think, or perhaps less?

♥ Loved you are, Always! ♥