Reflection 269

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Illuminated By Every Sense

Just as I now see here, in front of this page and this hand, Nothing (total absence of shape, structure, limits, opacity, colour, movement), so I now hear, this side of the sounds (birdsong, car-noises, children shouting) that are coming and going in it, Silence. Equally I now smell here, thankfully, no trace of tobacco smoke or cooking or drains… Thus this 1st Person is illuminated by every sense, as the unchanging and indispensable foreground of all these ever-changing sensations. In my exploration of others I use what senses are available, as best I can; in my exploration of Myself I use them all – to perfection. What is here to go wrong? (Douglas Harding. The Science of the 1st Person.)