“Oneness”

“In truth, the world and the individual are all merely reflections of Reality, in the same way that an ocean might alternately show a surface placid as far as the eye can see or one roiling with precipitous billows, but never stop being the same ocean. Just as an onlooker usually notices only the surface of this ocean, disregarding 10,000 feet of depth beneath it, so human beings focus only on the sensory vibrations (primarily of light and sound) of their “world” regardless of the silent background of Consciousness in which these stimuli play. In this sense, Consciousness may also be analogized to the blank cinema screen which disappears while the action of a film is projected onto it and which remains unchanged before, during, and after the movie. Similarly, when someone is asked to describe a room, she never mentions its empty space, which may occupy ninety percent of its volume.”