The Mental World
It is a mental world we live in, not a physical one at all.
The physical is merely an extension of the mental, and an imperfect extension
at that. Everything we see, hear, and feel is not a hard and inescapable fact
at all, but only the imperfect revelation to the senses of an idea held in
mind. Preoccupation with sensory experience has focused attention on effects
instead of causes, has led scientific investigation down a blind alley where
everything grows smaller into infinity or larger into infinity and walls man
off from the secrets that lie behind life. It is not the planets and stars, the
elements and winds, or even the existence of life itself that is the miracle
that demands our attention. It is consciousness. It is the mere fact of being,
the ability to say, “I.”Consciousness is an indisputable fact, the greatest
miracle of all, and all the sights and sounds of the world are merely side-effects.
The Magic in your Mind
U.S. Andersen
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