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.
... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking reality__hy the horror was so total and the ecstacy so complete__nd what was that extra quality which could never be recaptured afterward; the quality of what he felt when he walked down a path through tangled green leaves in a dream, in an air full of expectation, of causeless, utter rapture__nd when he awakened he could not explain it, it had just been a path through some woods.
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... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking reality__hy the horror was so total and the ecstacy so complete__nd what was that extra quality which could never be recaptured afterward; the quality of what he felt when he walked down a path through tangled green leaves in a dream, in an air full of expectation, of causeless, utter rapture__nd when he awakened he could not explain it, it had just been a path through some woods.
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