I had the desire to write this comment in response to Ashiya's blog post - I've read it before on her private one. I think I want attention again - lol. I hope she approves of my comment :P *** The most difficult thing to understand is that life is really simple. We have a tendency of making things a lot more complicated. The ego-mind, the personality, tells us that simple things are somehow devalued. The intellect wants to make things juicy. To make someone or something less than or more than. Instead of appreciating that all things are from the same Source, if perceptively different. For example, we prefer the use of complicated words and phrases (okay, I do! :P) to make what we are saying or what we are listening to seem more profound. More valid, more legitimate, more true. Everything is as it is. C'est tout. I can't wait for the day I have raised my consciousness of the truth to the level that I'll be able to eat an apple and drink only wat...