Truth is social. We learn the truth while we learn our names, because some one is kind enough to tell us. No. We cannot see all or be all, and who cares at all. We have our little piece of reality and people give us the rest. We don't need to know beyond a reasonable doubt. We don't have to know at all. It is a sort of curse to seek certainty because it wastes so much life for so little truth. Does this help?

Thank you for sharing your truth. :flowers:

What Walter Russell says is true but he does not elaborate because obviously he was able to penetrate Effect to see the Cause. With our ordinary senses as they are we are not able to penetrate an object we are observing to see what the truth behind it is! So Walter Russell explains therefore not being able to penetrate its cause we cannot in truth know the why of its existence.

But yet penetrating Effect is exactly what many mystics have done. Of course the reason they can do this is because their reason has shown them that the object must be an illusion. In following this path of investigation the mystic is then able to "develop" other "inner senses" that open this world to them. Then by concentrating on a flower for instance they are able to penetrate beyond its form and then the flower speaks to them and reveals its secrets. On golden pond comes to mind. Francis of Assisi speaking to the wolf comes to mind. These inner senses can allow the mystic to look at the mountain and be able to see the light that comes from them which no one else but they can observe. The Mountain speaks, opens up and reveals its secrets. The mystic can see beyond form back to where it became God's idea.

Fido, I can't really believe that you truly feel that life is more important than truth! Truth is not dependant on what people think it is for it stands by itself. You are more than your senses and you are not your body. We are not put on this earth to live but to find the truth and liberate ourself from the wheel of suffering! People that feel this way have wasted many incarnations and will continue in the wheel of suffering. You are given a body to find truth and not to envelop your self in the world of form and sensing.

Remember the Lord Buddha sitting by the river all hungry and dirty. The boat that passed by him carrying a child and his father. The boy broke his musical instrument's string. The Father said "No my son, if the string is too tight the string will break if it is too loose it will not Play!" The Buddha understood, he had found the Middle Path. He sttod up and bathed and fed his body. He latter became the Awaken One and no longer in the wheel of suffering.

The Hermit

... consider for a moment a slightly less thing-associated concept of process ... take the sculpture in your living room - what's its process? ... the geological process of earth?; the artistic process of the artist?; the ownership process of you? ... then consider the dancer as she floats by, leaving pieces of herself on all things she comes in contact with ... is the process of these left-behind pieces still the dancer? ... or is the process of these left-behind pieces now the dust mite? ... then take a single living cell ... it continuously takes in new material and excretes old material and before you know it it has replaced every single atom in it's being.

So in reality, processes float free of any individual "thing" - but on the other hand the universe of things is precisely what makes processes possible in the first place ... and as these processes float by through the universe of things, touching and drawing upon individual things as they go, they leave their mark and give these individual things a history ... and it is by recognizing the history of a thing that we can marvel at and empathize with the infinity of processes that have left their mark on it ... ... ...