To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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