Intimacy and Impersonality

A man articulates his understanding that belief in being a located perceiver divides experience into subject and object. Exploring Jean Klein’s statement that ‘what we really are is our absence’, he questions the relationship between intimacy and impersonality in true nature. Rupert affirms his insight while clarifying that from the mind’s perspective, our essence appears as absence of content, but from being’s perspective, it is fullness and presence. He explains the unusual confluence where our truest nature is simultaneously the most intimate yet completely impersonal – more intimate than our most private thoughts yet sharing none of their personal qualities, being both entirely intimate and entirely universal.

From event 21 March - 28 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 21–28 March 2025

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