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I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.  It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry.  It's all like a dream.  Everything is ecstasy, inside.  We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds.  But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.  Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for three seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all.  It is all one vast awakened thing.  I call it the golden eternity.  It is perfect.  We were never really born, we will never really die.  It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.  That which passes into everything is one thing.  It’s a dream already ended.  The world you see is just a movie in your mind.  Bless and sit down.  Forgive and forget.  Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

Jack Kerouac
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