The Experience & Experiences

Life is one gigantic ball of pure experience. It is the individual that picks out different parts and makes them complete unto themselves. Out of the Experience we create experiences. Those experiences can more accurately or less accurately reflect the whole. We set the background, we pick out the foreground. The religious question is the question of the overall. What is that one, direct, pure mass of experience really about? Is it good or bad? The only way to know is to examine the cookies we have cut out of the dough. We cannot operate in this world with the mass unity, we have to distinguish if we are to survive and navigate. The whole can be touched for moments, but only for moments and not while we are doing anything else. In our talking, thinking, analyzing, and living, we have to look at the parts and they are our evidence one way or another. The very experiences we create then become our reflection on the whole. Is it any wonder there are so many seemingly unanswerable questions?