"Most people are only peripherally aware of the world that surrounds them, especially if their surroundings are familiar. The voice in the head absorbs the greater part of their attention. Some people feel more alive when they travel and visit unfamiliar places or foreign countries because at those times sense perception—experiencing—takes up more of their consciousness than thinking. They become more present."
(Eckhart. 239)
"Physicists have discovered that the apparent solidity of matter is an illusion created by our sense. This includes the physical body, which we perceive and think of as form, but 99.99% of which is actually empty space. This is how vast the space is between the atoms compared to their size, and there is as much space again within each atom. The physical body is no more than a misperception of who you are. In many ways, it is a microcosmic version of outer space."
(Eckhart. 250)
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Yeah . . . not sure if you've read Fritjof Capra's "The Tao Of Physics" . . . all about this very thing . . . Scott :)
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