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"We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a separate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body — a center which “confronts” an “external” world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange. Everyday figures of speech reflect this illusion. “I came into this world.” “You must face reality.” “The conquest of nature.”

This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin." - Alan Watts

illusion of separateness
riita ikonen
riita ikonen
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jenny holzer
jenny holzer
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This is fine, Mauro Martinez
This is fine, Mauro Martinez
Mary Oliver, Upstream
Mary Oliver, Upstream
Birthright, George Abraham
Birthright, George Abraham

“Break often - not like porcelain, but like waves.”

Scherezade Siobhan
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“textiles can be understood as the literal fabric of life in sustaining the body, together they hold body and soul together, we are textiles selves as we are narrative selves”

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