Whatever characteristics man may attribute to himself intellectually
 must also be granted this planet, solar system, galaxy and universe;
(reality-presented-as-rhetoric):
life is the subject of the unique sentence that is man’s existence,
and he, part of its action.
 

Nothing in a system perceived bound can in any fashion be separated from
any of its other parts;
any feature that mind particularly focuses on should in truth be labeled
a characteristic of the thing being looked at, but not the nature of the thing itself.
 

Those who say that in their development, children are somehow tricked into
feelings of, ego-separation from their natural environment
by the misguided, malformed ideas of their parents teachers and society,
ignore the fact that their parents, teachers and the society
are a natural part of their natural world.
Man’s ordinary mind seems presently unable to comprehend and/or accept that
it is only its own routine operations which produce the sensation of there being
a world outside his skin which is definitively separate therefrom  --
and of an “I”  in his brain that is distinct from everything not-I therein.
Men’s mundane “I” always looks away from itself to other men’s “I's”
for the causes of all it finds disturbing about itself rather than looking directly into itself, and the inner realm it alone has created
(as per life’s unpublished blueprints ..........[and doing work far below union scale]).
 

In man’s ordinary state of consciousness his attention is drawn to the distinctive characteristics of matters and not to the unity of everything, and their place therein;
when the mind examines something it looks at it as being separated from
everything around it, and while convenient as a mental marker and measuring device, ordinary thought then forgets what it is doing and treats, characteristic-distinctions as lines-of-separation,
which distracts the mind from the constant recognition that everything in this universe is an integral part of a seamless, inseparable whole.
 

Nothing in a closed system can by any twist of mental imagination be made separated from all of its other components;
any one part man's mind focuses on should in truth be labeled a
characteristic of the thing being examined, but not taken as being the thing itself,
and most certainly not the essence of the thing;
(now --  corollary thereto):
in no way can the voice men hear incessantly in their heads be separated from consciousness;
the voice  --  what men call their thinking  --   is but a characteristic of  consciousness  --  but in no wise separate from it;
there is no Bill, no Mary, no you, no “I”, no me, no self in your head
apart from your brain which generates the thoughts you experience,
and which it then says is you  doing it.

In man’s intangible, mental, second-reality, the mind cannot  analyze the nature of matters therein --  only their characteristics,
and since the matters have no substance, neither do their characteristics,
thus thought ponders and debates the nature of shadows cast by things non existent,
and most torturous of all to realize is how mind and thought does this very thing
to itself every time it attempts (using its host human's tongue)
to explain why it thinks as it does.
Echoes of an original voice no man can remember hearing
offering an endless canalization of itself.
Men know water is refreshing because they have drunk it;
they know metaphysical truth from illusion because their brain has revealed it;
they know this from that because their mind is able, through thought,
to focus on the this as though it is something separated from that,
same as how men believe they know this to be true
as contrasted to all of the thats which their brain says are not,
and how he knows that is him in his brain thinking all of this
as opposed to all of the uninvited not-hims, somehow lurking about in there.
 
 

The only way to sell something non essential is to get the potential buyer’s mind focused on some characteristic of the sales proposal
so as to separate it from the wholeness of reality:
“No payments for one whole year!” goes the attractive promise on which
the purchaser's mind should fix while ignoring the unavoidable reality that
when payments do begin the second year
they will be double in size to the ones not required the first.
(“Join our church and you have my personal guarantee that when you die,
you won’t actually be dead” et al.)
 
 

While it is easy to dismiss ordinary people’s slippery use of language,
as in their touting of diet plans, or programs such as AA, or Cancer Support Groups, they are actually making good practical use of words
in that their talking about not eating, not drinking, or having a potentially deadly ill,
and doing it in a communal, social setting
serves them better than would the certain man’s go-it-alone approach.
 
 

Reminder: If you still consider  some aspect of your behavior as your problem  --
you haven’t even begun to comprehend what is going on.
The depressed man, after committing a suicide  --  which no one noticed  --
decided a different tack was called for.
(Caution: it is at specific personal risk that a man personally reminds himself of this more than eight times on a given day.)
 

Even after the ventriloquist's dummy has awakened to what is going on,
and freed his mind from life’s routine illusions, to maintain his freedom
he must then keep everyone’s hand out of his back save his own,
and by “his-own” is meant:
the one “I” in his mind which has no interest in controlling anyone.
 
 

New Maxim: keep your tank so constantly filled with fresh gas
that there is no room left for anything else.

Men fear and are disturbed by what is not well known to them;
foreigners frighten them while commonplace faces stir no passion;
applicable also to your mind’s routine attitude toward thoughts.