A person who focusses their attention on the only thing in our experience that it is possible for us to know to be real soon begins to realize that all experience is a manifestation of that one thing.
What is the one thing? It is that we exist. Or as Descartes has exclaimed, “Cogito ergo sum”. I think, therefore I am. Descartes called this the first principle of pure philosophy. It is the starting point of the path to truth. The beginning of the Yellow Brick Road. But we must first kill the Wicked Witch of the East (our ego?) and claim her Ruby Slippers (consciousness?) as our own before we can begin that journey.
And of course, we all know where we will end up; right back where we started; Home!
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