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In New Thought spirituality we often talk about the individual being like a cup of the ocean, which is God; a microcosm of the macrocosm. The properties within that cup, within each individual, are exactly the same as the properties of the ocean as a whole. Our nature is God’s nature.
The problem with this illustration isn’t the basic analogy. It's an accurate one. We are all made of the same cosmic stuff, flowing from Source, created of Source, returning to Source.
The problem with this analogy is the cup itself. It positions what is in the cup, the individual, as somehow separate from the whole that is Source when in fact there is no such separation.
Imagine the same analogy, with no cup at all.
J. Anderson

The limits you create will be real to you until you learn to step beyond them. Then they will cease to be real. Then, you will look back at the reality you used to inhabit and feel claustrophobic, wondering how you were able to stand its narrow confines.
Paul Ferrini

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
Sir J. Lubbock