To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions _ memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present _ and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.
The Vanished Man
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Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions _ memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present _ and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.
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