by riverflow

We miss the significance that every time we say “I,” we tap into an habitual metaphysical fiction.  By saying “I,” we end up creating two different “I”s: (1) the “I” that speaks, and (2) the “I” to which the speaking “I” refers.

In this way we create a conceptual rift in the midst of lived experience–and we end up believing deeply that this concept points to “reality”!  By analogy, we behave like an eyeball that claims that it can see itself.  By dividing ourselves, we divide everything.  The first “crack” in the universe begins with “I.”  However, beginning with “I,” the universe may learn to heal.  But not in any way that “I” could describe in words.