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To speak with presence
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To speak with presence

A single idiot
It's sometimes said that we need a permanent connection to our sensation.
And yet, folks are often troubled by this idea because they don't know what even a temporary
connection to our sensation is.

And they work for years to try and develop a connection to real sensation of being, which is actually dependent not on themselves but on forces that flow into being from below us at the level of our cells and molecules and from above us through a hole in the top of the head.

These descriptions of molecules and holes in the top of the head are of course allegorical,
because words can't quite describe the way that real sensation flows into being from above and below, which might as well be from side to side. And they don't describe the sensation of sensation accurately. This already makes it quite difficult to connect the action of sensation to one's words. And I've noticed in human beings, even among my very close friends, that there's often almost no connection between sensation and words.

And, lacking this connection, there can be no real connection between being and words. One ends up in a situation where being is talked about a great deal, but the talking has no being in it.

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