Reflection 217

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Creating Your Own Reality

Douglas doesn't create his own reality, Douglas is a picture. Douglas is a picture in a mirror. He’s kind of thin! He is an appearance. He is a phenomenon - around which what you call the ego constellates. My self-image grows up around that picture. But when I say I create my own reality and really mean this, I say Who I really, really am creates reality. Who you really, really are is responsible for the whole show. So it's a question of which "you" you are referring to. I don't think that the chap in the mirror, namely little Douglas, can create anything. He's a picture. He's thin. He's also intangible: you can't touch him. I've identified with that picture: taken that picture and put it here, and its wrong. It doesn't belong here, it belongs there. Douglas is not responsible for anything like creation, or for anything, because he is not conscious. The consciousness in me and in you is the One Consciousness who creates all reality, and is responsible for all reality. I say don't believe this, I think you should test it. (Douglas Harding. 1976 Interview.)