I woke up and I suddenly got it.
I understood suddenly how thought was just an illusory thing, and how thought is responsible for, if not all, most of the suffering we experience.
And then I suddenly felt like I…
The universe is like a machine. Animals and plants are like machines.
The laws of nature are the same now as they were at the time of the Big Bang, and they’ll be the same forever. All your consciousness is the activity of your brain and nothing more.
Into this expensive amazing feeling of freedom.
I was no longer a fragment of the universe. I was the universe.
And ever since that day, I’ve been trying to get back there.
Your mind is inside your head.
We are machines.