I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.
Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self - Suzanne Segal
Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
- Suzanne Segal
When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, noth… - Suzanne Segal
When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, noth…
I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick… - Suzanne Segal
I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick…
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible att… - Suzanne Segal
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible att…
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is. - Suzanne Segal
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.
Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated… - Suzanne Segal
Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated…
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it never c… - Suzanne Segal
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it never c…
These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in e… - Suzanne Segal
These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in e…
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself. - Suzanne Segal
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.
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