"Let us not forget, however, that words are but symbols of symbols.
They are thus twice removed from reality."
~excerpt from A Course in Miracles
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"In
and of itself, the world contains no objects, adverbs, or prepositions;
neither is there sequence, events, or happenings. Even all verbs are
inappropriate. Nothing is ‘doing’ anything. Even nouns are sources of
perceptual illusion as a noun stands for an arbitrary selection of
boundaries and qualities that have prior existence only in the
observer’s mind. What is difficult to see is that all is complete and
total in itself and exists as its own self-identity. No ‘thing’ exists,
and even if it could, it is not the name given to it. To say, “This is a
chair,” is to deny the completeness, wholeness, and absolute
self-identity of all that exists. To say, “That is a chair,” is to say
that A is actually B. The name, the image, the idea of a chair is again
something other than a chair, and the mind is easily deceived by
nominalization and linguistic convenience. Abstractions are linguistic
conveniences; they have no separate existence. Language is metaphor."
excerpt from: “The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden”
(2002), Chapter 12: The Search for Truth
~Dr. David R. Hawkins
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