Tag: gnosis
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What is experience like outside of thought?
“I think, therefore I am.” — René Descartes I feel conflicted about this because experience exists outside of thinking, but the “I” does not exist outside of thinking. The self does, however, and it doesn’t need thoughts or a thinker to say it does exist. If you attach your being (or “am-ness”) to thoughts, then…
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Cradled by Decay
So much of my suffering has been trying to find something unchanging and permanent in a changing and impermanent world. No wonder it felt so heavy. I was running with the assumption that we could find something that is forever, or at least long enough to seem that way. But the truth is, everything is…
A Helper of Hermes 