what do you think it means when a person has multiple epiphanic experiences?
do they always happen and what changes is the person's recognition of them not the frequency of their occurrence?
is it just about being willing to see?
do they always happen and what changes is the person's recognition of them not the frequency of their occurrence?
is it just about being willing to see?
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I fully believe that we experience the grandest epiphany when we die and return to the universal fold. We return to the state that the enlightened live in.
Which brings the question, why be enlightened all the time if that's where we're going to end up anyways? Is the point of life to experience the human condition from our narrow point of perspective with little glimpses into the great truths or is it to try and attain the state we arrive at ultimately in the end?
A better comparison is to look capturing a place or instant with a photograph versus seeing it with your eyes in all of its splendor and ugliness. Sometimes the photograph, as a focused and framed recording, is more beautiful and captures the emotional essence of the moment better than just walking around looking at the place. To be alive as a human is a chance to experience the universe from a unique and focused perspective, delve down into the micro before returning to the macro...