A swim in the pond in the rain
-George Saunders
The instant we wake-up the story begins :
"Here I am, in my bed,
Hard worker, Good Dad, Decent Husband
a guy who always tries his best "
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All of this limited thinking has an unfortunate by-product : Ego
who is trying to survive ? "I" am
The mind takes a vast unitary wholeness (the Universe)
selects one tiny segment of it (me)
and starts narrating from that point of view.
Just like that, that entity (George!)
becomes real, and he is (surprise, surprise)
located at the exact center of the universe
and everything is happening in his movie
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It is all, somehow, both for and about him
In this way, the moral judgment arise :
what is good for George is - good
what is bad for him is -bad!
so in every instant , a delusional gulf gets created between
Things as we think they are! and
Things as they actually are!
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