An Aperture

The thing is that we have been educated To use our minds in a certain way A way that ignores, or screens out, the fact that Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out You see, it's as if you had a light covered with a black ball And in this ball were pinholes, and each pinhole is an aperture Through which the light comes out So in that way, every one of us is, actually A pinhole through which the fundamental light That is, the existence itself, looks out Only, the game we're playing is not to know this To be only that little hole, which we call "Me," "my ego," my specific "John Jones," or whatever Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out If, we can maintain, at the same time The sense of being this specific John Jones with his role in life Or whatever, and know also, underneath this That we are the whole works You get a very marvelous and agreeable arrangement A most remarkable harmoniousness I mean, it gives one's life a great sense of joy and exuberance If you can carry on these two things at once If you, in other words You know that all the serious predicaments of life are a game Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out Every one of us Is an aperture Through which the whole cosmos Looks out