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Aware of Being Unaware

Challenge your mental limits and see if you THINK you know what the "Real truth" is.

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Aware of Being Unaware
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Touch is of our imagination

Hearing is of our mind

Taste is merely an illusion

Sight is something we will never find

So what is for sure? And what is not?

A question that can only continue to fly around in the vast space

of... Earth?

of.... a bubble?

of.... perhaps nothing

Those who tell themselves they have concrete answers

Are the ones who in the end scramble to find the shattered pieces of what they thought was concrete

Ignorance is too big of a price to pay

And most can't say

They know the entire way

Knowledge is fluid like water

Taking on the shape of wherever it flows into

A neverending change

of a manipulative source

That's bent to what it's steered to

But people can't let things just run its course

Due to the curiosity toward the unknown

But what's the real unknown

is not only what we do not know

but most of what we claim to know

To be certain of something is an untraceable goal

But not because we are not capable of seeking

But because the idea of certainty itself is only an idea

We turn to it for comfort

When our doubt is constantly leaking

And as soon as we feel ourselves slipping

Into the grip of delusion

We must fight to balance the tipping

of the cup

and realize that what we see

what we touch

what we smell and taste

and what we hear

could all be in our mind

or very well...

out of our mind

Is it all really in your head? Or is it in the universe? Do you know? Or do you think? Many people get caught up in how much knowledge they can retain and what kind of information they know, when really if we were all stripped away of our educational knowledge and asked the question… “How do you know your ‘truth’ is real?” or better yet “How do you know what real truth is?”, a lot of us would be stopped in our tracks and stuck in the quicksand of our realization. Just as we all were born out of a womb, and how we all bleed red, we all have minds that essentially are unknowing about the origin of the unexplainable. And the unexplainable is really everything. Of course, we have our logical mathematical and scientific research and evidence. That work has broken so many milestones and enhanced our species beyond compare. But what science and math cannot formulate, is an equation to figuring out what started the ticking of our clock… or who (even what) got our clock ticking. Being in a philosophical whirlpool of questions in a stimulant keep yourself aware of all the day to day mystery that envelopes you.

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