I understand exactly what you're saying, and I've had many of those moments. |
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I like to take walks at night time around my neighborhood because I love the night sky. I love the twinkling stars, the soft glowing moon, the dark clouds, and from where I am from, the purple tinted darkness caused by the smog and pollution haha! Sometimes there will be a split second that I am looking at the moon and I realize, "ahhh...thats the moon..." as if I realize the very essence of the moon. and for that split second the sky does not feel like a huge wallpaper covering our world, but a space with density and distance. |
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Last edited by Dewitback; 02-07-2008 at 04:38 AM.
Dreaming is forgetting the basis of reality, remembering it is to be lucid.
I understand exactly what you're saying, and I've had many of those moments. |
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thats the best way to live! but very hard for anyone to do all the time. wouldn't it be living in the moment? |
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Yeah! this would happen to me like when i am some where historical and I realise that someone in the past touched this EXACT rock, and for a moment I understand that someone touched this exact rock. sadly, it goes away. |
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Last edited by Dewitback; 02-07-2008 at 05:13 AM.
Dreaming is forgetting the basis of reality, remembering it is to be lucid.
Ya i know what you mean i think, i only slept under the starts once in my life and it was the best night ever. I think the stars are hypnotic or something. |
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Some are born to sweet deleight
Some are born to endless night
I understand what you mean, but I would have worded it to say the difference is between knowing something and understanding something. The distinction being that knowledge is possessing factual information which is true, but understanding being an intuitive application of that knowledge. |
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Yeah, exactly. I had a hard time grasping the notion that when you're on the highway, driving along, every single square foot of land as far as the eye can see has life forms living there which call it home, every pebble and rock you see has a history, is unique, and most of all the idea that you could literally stop the car and walk out to the horizon if you wanted to. |
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Oh, okay, I read that wrong. |
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Not really, just stop doing everything else |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
I live for those moments. I don't have anything witty or word-heavy to say about it though. |
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I love those moments. The biggest thing that gets me thinking about how huge the universe and how small things can be, is atoms. I think of how everything is made out of microscopic atoms. |
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The exact same thing happened to me. |
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this is probably what happened to sir Isac newton "...Gravity..." |
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Dreaming is forgetting the basis of reality, remembering it is to be lucid.
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