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The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

This Life Of Yours Which You Are Living Is Not Merely A Piece Of This Entire Existence, But In A Certain Sense The Whole; Only This Whole Is Not So Constituted That It Can Be Surveyed In One Single Glance. This, As We Know, Is What The Brahmins Express In That Sacred, Mystic Formula Which Is Yet Really So Simple And So Clear; Tat Tvam Asi, This Is You. Or, Again, In Such Words As "i Am In The East And The West, I Am Above And Below, I Am This Entire World."

Matter And Energy Seem Granular In Structure, And So Does “life”, But Not So Mind.

The Verbal Interpretation, On The Other Hand, I.e. The Metaphysics Of Quantum Physics, Is On Far Less Solid Ground. In Fact, In More Than Forty Years Physicists Have Not Been Able To Provide A Clear Metaphysical Model.

No Self Is Of Itself Alone. It Has A Long Chain Of Intellectual Ancestors. The "i" Is Chained To Ancestry By Many Factors ... This Is Not Mere Allegory, But An Eternal Memory.