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The age of exclusive statements is over.

In fact, there has never been a time for exclusive statements.

For nowhere in time could we point out that something is true, absolutely true; and leave out the possibility of ‘maybe’. For, as they say in India, “where a knowledge is uttered, an ‘I’ is spoken.” Whenever we state what we think we know and take the content of that statement to be 100% true, we construct a false sense of self based on that ‘knowledge’. It is this ‘self’ and this knowledge that gets in the way between us and the world, it is from that solidified vantage point that we look at our surroundings. This is the reason they say: the world is an illusion. An illusion that is only right, is only true from that vantage point. Imagine: were you to stand behind the illusionist in the circus, you would see the rabbit appearing from his sleeves into the hat, but all the audience – sitting opposite you – sees is the bunny appearing, as if by magic from the hat. It is this – partly intentional – illusion of knowledge that sets up the theatre of an objective world in which we think, speak, and act. Forgetting our identity as the magician, we behave like idle spectators: too pleased to be enchanted, too scared to wake up. But who’s sitting beside you in the audience?    

No-one.