The difference between there being nothing and there being this amazing world for us to experience and play in is so vastly, vastly more significant than the difference between two lives of two people, even if those two lives are as different as you can possibly imagine.

Could this also perhaps be a way of saying that we have far far more in common with each other than the appearance of difference suggests?

It seems like the details of each instance of experience are what give the appearance of difference (eg differing cutural expressions of joy; differing ways of reacting to the same expression of anger etc). The more one moves away from physical expression - ie from the outward details - and into the feeling or experience, the more things begin to look similar and can be recognised in another (as versions of one's own).

Focussing on differences also serves to cut one off from the flow of the NOW moment, as our attention is drawn elsewhere! There is (for me anyhow) a flow of infinite intelligence to be found in living as you describe - flowing with the moment, not resisting, keenly appreciating, accepting. There is always significance, if not black&white meaning. Moving up the levels of abstraction and out of physical duality, difference-perception dissipates, as, at the highest level, all is an expression of a single flow (infinite intelligence). Here there is no duality, there is only connection. Perhaps there's nothing but that NOTHINGNESS that you say could just as easily have been; perhaps it is actually the default (infinite potentiality), perhaps it is the only reality - all outward expressions merely simulations - the dance - however delightfully or horrifyingly real they may seem!?! :D

Great post @caitlinjohnstone, a cleansing one for you? - after all the mucky stuff that's been heaped in your direction! It's different from the politics and sleeze; I like it very much, thank you!

You are courageous, you have tough integrity. I wish you all the very best!
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