"Underneath
the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there
is
another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware
of the
unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize
that it is
inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function
of this total
galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of
all other galaxies.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
You look and
look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, "Why, that's
me!" And in
knowing that, you know that you never die. You are the eternal thing
that comes
and goes, that appears -- now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now
as Betty Brown -- and so it goes, forever and ever and ever."
Alan
Watts
