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We Are A Single Self
not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self - the God who is all
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We are all one single Self
From Alan Watts' "The Book"
Myth, then, is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: "Where did the world come from?" "Why did God make the world?" "Where was I before I was born?" "Where do people go when they die?" Again and again I have found that they seem to be satisfied with a simple and very ancient story, which goes something like this:
"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour-hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night, waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can't have any one of these without the other, because you wouldn't be able to know what black is unless you had seen it side-by-side with white, or white unless side-by-side with black.
"In the same way, there are times when the world is, and times when the world isn't, for if the world went on and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes. Now you see it; now you don't. So because it doesn't get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It's like your breath: it goes in and out, in and out, and if you try to hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It's also like the game of hide-and-seek, because it's always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn't always hide in the same place.
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Brahman/Atman
In the Hindu religion, the individual Self is Atman, and the God Self is Brahman. The two are one and the same, according to many, or may alternately be viewed as a single process, Atman/Brahman. Many other issues relevent to Self as God are in The Science of God http://psychocience.com/scienceofgod.htm
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God-Self/Individual-Self
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