Bernadette Robert
The type of understanding we derive from reading the lives of others is primarily intellectual and imaginative, secondhand. But the type of understanding we come by within ourselves is wordless, thoughtless, imageless. And between these two types of understanding is the same gap that lies between fiction and reality.
There is no bridging this gap; one can never be the other. Yet how many would rather live in the mental 'space' of fiction than have to face, day after day, the mundane, trite, often boring reality of ourselves? It is because we choose the fictional space that we have been brainwashed and thereby locked out of the true reality of the unitive state. In truth, the unitive state is utterly real, common, ordinary, and unspectacular; it may even be boring. It is not easy living.
(continued tomorrow)
The Path to No-Self
[Note: For those who have gone to my page: RECORDED TALKS, the missing handouts for the Essence of Christian Mysticism talks have now been added.]
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