there. That means that you must be here. The dot is smaller than you. You are bigger than it.
You are starting to define yourself again—in relationship to the Dot On The Wall.
Your relationship with the dot becomes sacred, because it has given you back a sense of
your Self.
Now a kitten appears in the room. You don’t know who is doing this, who is causing all this to
happen, but you are grateful, because now some more decisions can be made. The kitten
appears softer. But you appear smarter (at least, part of the time!). It is faster. You are
stronger.
More things begin appearing in the room, and you begin to expand your definition of Self.
Then it dawns on you. Only in the presence of something else can you know yourself. This
something else is that which you are not. Thus: In the absence of that which You Are Not,
that which You Are.., is not.
You have remembered an enormous truth, and you vow never to forget it again. You
welcome every other person, place, and thing in your life with open arms. You reject none of
it, because you see now that all that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a
greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
But wouldn’t my mind figure out what was going on if I was placed alone in that white room?
Wouldn’t it say, “Hey, I’m in a white room, that’s all. Relax and enjoy it”?
It would at first, of course. But soon, in the absence of any more incoming data, it would not
know what to think. Ultimately, the whiteness, the emptiness, the nothingness, the aloneness
would get to it.
Do you know one of the greatest punishments your own world has devised?
Solitary confinement.
Exactly. You cannot stand being alone for extended periods.
In the most inhumane prisons, there is not even light in solitary. The door is closed, and you
are in utter darkness. Nothing to read, nothing to do, nothing else at all.
Since thinking is creating, you would stop creating your reality, because your mind must have
data in order to create. You call your mind’s creations conclusions, and when it could not
come to any conclusions, you would leave it—you would go “out of your mind.”
And yet, leaving your mind is not always bad. You do it in all your moments of great insight.
Uh, come again?
You don’t believe that insight comes from your mind, do you?
Well, I’ve always thought...
That’s been the problem, right there! You’ve always thought. Try notthinking once in a while!
Try simply being.