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The Vedantist says, “I am He.” Brahman is real and the world illusory. Even the “I” is illusory. – …………………………..–Ramakrishna
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All that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream.
…………………………– Edgar Allen Poe
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Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein
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it may not be possible to be
in two places at once or even
(given cosmic motion)
to have been in the same place twice,
spacetime may be eternal as a mandala,
but for us space and time
are beginnings and ends,
now and then
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if I-am is an illusion so must
I-will-not-be, and, if I-will-not-be
is real so must be I-am, then
philosophies of illusion be damned
and the same for love and death
if illusion’s perfect enough
to seem a universe laid bare,
be real or not, the rest
is splitting hairs
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by Jim Culleny
9/6/10
Blink 