The Answers to the Great Questions are Within Us
The answers to the questions of life, the Universe, and everything lie within us — not without.
The quest for God is actually a quest for ourselves when all is said and done.
The notions of impermanence in Buddhism and Hinduism are about the interconnectivity of human beings. That’s because — when we are in these bodies — we have cut ourselves off to the direct connection with the always present universal energies. But we are still connected to them — and they to us — but the self gets attached to the notion of here-and-now and the body we occupy.
And that can be lonely.
But we are truly not alone. We are all connected. But because the person that we each individually are perceives everything on an individual basis — and nobody else can get inside of our heads, hearts, and souls — we start to feel lonely and disconnected.
Yet because we know that we are truly all interconnected on an energetic level, we get this idea that we must find it outside of ourselves. And because we do that — and because the connectivity between us and other humans is impermanent — we still feel alone. But we know there is something bigger than us out there. And that something, we think of a personality, like we think we…
