I Know Not Whence I

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

I Don't Like It, And I'm Sorry I Ever Had Anything To Do With It.

This Life Of Yours Which You Are Living Is Not Merely A Piece Of This Entire Existence, But In A Certain Sense The Whole; Only This Whole Is Not So Constituted That It Can Be Surveyed In One Single Glance. This, As We Know, Is What The Brahmins Express In That Sacred, Mystic Formula Which Is Yet Really So Simple And So Clear; Tat Tvam Asi, This Is You. Or, Again, In Such Words As "i Am In The East And The West, I Am Above And Below, I Am This Entire World."

Nature Has No Reverence Towards Life. Nature Treats Life As Though It Were The Most Valueless Thing In The World.... Nature Does Not Act By Purposes.

There Is No Kind Of Framework Within Which We Can Find Consciousness In The Plural; This Is Simply Something We Construct Because Of The Temporal Plurality Of Individuals, But It Is A False Construction... The Only Solution To This Conflict Insofar As Any Is Available To Us At All Lies In The Ancient Wisdom Of The Upanishad.