Trees grow, still, no matter the concentration of CO2. The point is… “Happiness, sanity, and security doesn’t consist in clinging to things which can’t be clung to; in any case there isn’t anybody to cling to them. The whole thing is a weaving of smoke. As soon as you really discover this, and you stop clinging to change, everything is quite different. Not only do all your senses become more wide awake, but you see, that there is no duality; or difference between the ordinary, & ‘magical’ world. What makes the difference is the point of view. The human being “goes with” the rest of the universe. You came out of it in the same way as a flower comes out of a plant, or fruit out of a tree. As an apple tree apples, the solar system in which we live, the galaxy, and system of galaxies, that peoples. People are an expression of its energy, and nature. If people are intelligent, then the energy they express also is. n trying to describe what happens to me this moment, I’ll never be able to describe it. Egocentric consciousness is a hallucination. So when you see that that’s nonsense, naturally, a quietness comes over you. In seeing that you can’t control your mind, you realize there is no controller. What you took to be the thinker of thoughts is just one of the thoughts. What you took to be the feeler of the feelings was that chronic muscular strain: just one of the feelings. The experiencer of experience was just part of the experience. How does a thing put a process into action? Without a knower there can’t be knowing. We live in an eternal now. Our brains do the thinking for us in an entirely unconscious way. It always comes back to you, but we like to pretend it doesn’t.”