The layers of our society

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  Sometimes I think our society resembles a vast ship built on several levels — each floor with its own light, its own darkness, its own illusions of safety. The layers of our society reveal different destinies, different masks, different wounds stretched along the social ladder like unspoken truths. And when a collective crisis comes — usually financial, though not only — I begin to sense a strange tilting, a quiet, almost imperceptible shift of weight. As if the Titanic of our shared fate begins to lean, and the water starts flooding the lowest decks, where people are most vulnerable, closest to the cold bottom, to the first line of disaster. And I see in this not just a social mechanism, but the illness of a single shared organism — a painful reminder of how our collective body suffers when balance is broken. Just as in the human psyche, so in society — when some parts are neglected, when some voices are suppressed, a symptom inevitably appears. Psychoanalysis would say that th...

The Self is the only reality

 

"The Self is the only reality that always exists, and in its light, all things are seen. We forget this and direct our attention to the external world. The hall is illuminated whether there are people in it or not, whether they are performing a play or nothing is happening. It is the light that allows us to see the hall, the people, and their performance. We are so absorbed by the objects or phenomena revealed by the light that we fail to pay attention to the light itself. Like the torches in the hall that always burn, the light of Consciousness or the Self is always present—whether in the waking state or the dream state, where things appear, or in deep sleep, where nothing is seen. What we must do is focus on the seer, not the seen, not on the objects, but on the light that reveals them."
— Ramana Maharshi.

 

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