Whenever we get assertive and convinced of our opinions and how right we are, we may want to remember the fact that those conclusions are coming from someone who is unconsciously attached to a small, fragile, human, animal body, with a brain that filters out most any perceptions other than those that forward a crude, base survival, and running around with goofy manufactured worries and problems, on a medium sized planet in an harsh, material universe.
The story below is the coolest analogy to what I am talking about:
In a mother’s womb there were two babies. The first baby asked the other: “Do you believe in life after this world?”
The second baby replied, “Why, of course. There has got to be something after this world.”
“Nonsense,” said the first. “There is no life after this world. Why would there be? The umbilical cord supplies nutrition. Life after this would be impossible. The umbilical cord is too short. There can’t be a world after this one.”
The second baby held his ground. “I think there is something, and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we’ll see each other there.”
The first baby replied, “If there is another world, no one has ever come back from there. Leaving here is the end of life, and after delivery, there will be no where to go and nothing but darkness.”
Well, I don’t know,” Said the twin. “But we’ll certainly see mother and she will take care of us.
“Mother?” The first baby guffawed. You believe in a mother? An all-powerful, intelligent being that makes all this happen? Where is she now?”
The second baby calmly and patiently tried to explain, “She is all around us. It is in her that we live. Without her, there would not be a world.”
The first twin laughed sarcastically and asserted, “Ha! I don’t see her, so it’s only logical that she doesn’t exist.
To which the other replied, “Sometimes when you’re in silence you can hear her, you can perceive her. I believe there is a reality after this world.”
~ From the book “Finding Meaning” by David Kessler