“In Eckart Tolle’s book ‘A New Earth’ he describes a habit that I find interesting, which is to act and treat others based on our perceptions of role, such that the waiter is a waiter, the banker a banker, and so on… and how this counterfeits our humanity and relationships… even when taken to more extreme positions, such as Mother, Lover, Employee, etc. It’s an interesting and useful perspective that I find compelling.

Seeing this detailed so clearly is medicinal in that it invites us to see through the illusions that separate us from ourselves, creatures, living places and beings… and, perhaps, even the divine. Because we are trained to see with »categories, rather than our hearts or intuition… and our categories are woefully malfounded…

But one thing he doesn’t mention there is dreaming. And when we dream, something deeply astonishing is happening… but the waking mind dismisses it too easily… saying ‘It’s just a dream’. Of course, the waking mind is the same kind of thing… but is, in many ways, far less veritable than the dreaming mind. Are they the same mind? Perhaps, but is the Sun the same Sun when eclipsed by the moon?”

— an anonymous informant