And fear not the wide open sky of your mind, allowing and rejoicing in its occasional chirping visitors remembering that they, too, will one day be gone.

For instance: women. The mind will not stop talking about them and making plans to achieve certain outcomes with them. Layers upon layers upon layers of these fantasies are laid so thick as to be effectively impossible to see through.

But what if you sped that content to 10,000x speed? I've never done it before, but have no doubt it would be so fast and high-pitched as to not even make a sound. At that rate, you probably wouldn't even know anything was being played, let alone recognize the subject being spoken about.

Not only are you the first to ever take this path, but you also don’t have a clue where you’re going, nor any idea of how long it’s going to take to get there!

Yugas are cosmic cycles influenced by our planet's proximity to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately 26,500 light-years away.

Unfortunately, dualistic words can’t convey the full logic of how, despite all the misery and evil out there, that God is Good. For instance, I could try to explain that suffering exists only to point the small fragmented ego back towards True Identity.

These preferences might be true, but they aren't Truth. They're the ego's interpretation of reality filtered through conditioning.

Luckily (once she left) I had the self-awareness to address the tension: "Well, that was without a doubt the weirdest thing I've ever done." The entire table burst out laughing. Situation diffused. The evening went on.