You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?