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Ego vs Awareness/consciousness
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RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness
(May 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm)jess_essential Wrote: Reality is also an illusion. Hence it being vastly different from every perspective. Perception is key, because it allows us to have eyes where in other circumstances, we wouldn't. Doesn't mean that what we perceive to be true, is truth. Just means that in the present tense, we perceive it to be so.

I would think reality would be real without us, the only thing it does is shape us and thus proves how real it is. We can distort it and not believe in what it holds as true but it, it self, does not deceive us. I will agree the self is an illusion but not reality. I can say i am not my self, all my thoughts, are but who i think i am because i am, but it is not actually me but a simple spontaneous manifestation that can say its me.
"Its not what your looking at that matters, its what you see." -Henry David Thoreau
♪Oh, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get Lost in my mind Lost in my Mind Yes, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get lost I get lost Oh, I get♪ -The Head and the Heart
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Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 27, 2012 at 2:54 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by genkaus - April 27, 2012 at 3:23 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 27, 2012 at 3:39 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by frankiej - April 27, 2012 at 5:19 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 27, 2012 at 5:56 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by frankiej - April 27, 2012 at 5:57 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Neo-Scholastic - April 27, 2012 at 10:13 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Phil - April 27, 2012 at 10:25 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 27, 2012 at 9:33 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Phil - April 28, 2012 at 8:13 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 28, 2012 at 7:24 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Phil - April 29, 2012 at 4:27 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 29, 2012 at 4:48 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Phil - April 29, 2012 at 5:15 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - April 29, 2012 at 6:20 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by jess_essential - April 27, 2012 at 11:04 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Welsh cake - April 29, 2012 at 5:58 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 7, 2012 at 10:53 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Epimethean - May 7, 2012 at 11:01 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 8, 2012 at 8:28 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 8, 2012 at 9:17 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by jess_essential - May 8, 2012 at 11:06 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 9, 2012 at 12:27 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 9, 2012 at 1:12 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by simplexity - May 9, 2012 at 2:36 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by C Rod - May 9, 2012 at 11:21 am
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by robsenelstun - May 15, 2012 at 6:54 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Whateverist - May 15, 2012 at 10:23 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by toro - May 17, 2012 at 8:04 pm
RE: Ego vs Awareness/consciousness - by Angrboda - May 18, 2012 at 2:34 pm

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