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We’re All Guessing

David Price
5 min readSep 26, 2024

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Chrysanthemums by Katsushika Hokusai, Detail of hanging scrolls. 1840s.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.

~ Carl Jung

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The question “who am I”

- is not really meant to get an answer,

the question ”who am I”

- is meant to dissolve the questioner.

~ Ramana Maharshi

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If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.

~ Elkhart Tolle

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Out there beyond all horizons are many countless beings of all ages, dying and being born. Wealthy and impoverished. Homeless, joyous, insane, addicted, beatific, raucous, tortured, tearful, wandering the halls of opulent palaces, fighting for their lives, beaten down, limbless, ecstatic. What if all of these beings are also your friends, your loved ones, yourself, in different timelines, dimensions and life stages?

Maybe you are out there in manifold holographic form, urgently shoveling food into the mouth of the world-destroying machine. Or maybe in the next iteration of a fractal curve you are blessed with leverage and super-potential to do crazy wisdom aikido with all the impending crises as they

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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