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Episode 58: Donald Hoffman

Rupert Spira Podcast

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The Pen, It Owes Its Reality to Infinite Consciousness

The pen owes its reality to infinite consciousness. It borrows its appearance from the finite mind through which it is perceived. So as William Wordsworth said, we half-create, half-perceive the world. We perceive it in the sense that what we're perceiving is reality and that reality precedes and is independent of its being perceived. But our perceiving faculties impose their limitations on reality and create its appearance. so we half-perceived and half-create.

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