Pedro Senhorinha Silva - Live Your IDEALS

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The Unknown's Guide to Knowing How Not to Know

The Unknown's Guide to Knowing How Not to Know

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The Unknown's Guide to Knowing How Not to Know
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I do not exist. I never have. Can you believe it? Almost fifty years of not existing and everything to show for it, because the fruit that the seeds of nonexistence bear is nothing. And I have all the nothing I can handle. Nothing is my everything.

But, “Don’t cry for me Argentina.” I’m in good company. Because if you’re reading this, the chances are that you don’t exist either, when you don’t think about it. According to the word maker uppers, to exist means “the fact or state of living or having objective reality.” So, my question to you is, can you say for a fact that you really objectively exist? How do you know? Do you have to be an object to objectively exist? If you are not an object what are you? So if you were to make the BOLD statement, “I EXIST!!!”, what would you mean by “I”?

Even as “I” typed the words, “I do not exist.”, there was the awareness of a witnessing Presence that was almost dictating the the words, an awareness of receiving the words, and then a mindfulness of …

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