“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
