" Why, that's me ! "...

Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention
to this and that, there is another self more really us
than I.

And the more you become aware of the unknown
self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize
that it is inseparably connected with everything else that
is.

You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the
Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great
telescopes.

You look and look, and one day you are going
to wake up and say, "Why, that's me!" And in knowing that,
you know that you never die.

You are the eternal thing that
comes and goes, that appears -- now as John Jones, now
as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes,
forever and ever and ever.


- Alan Watts