An Aperture

The thing is that we have been educated
 To use our minds in a certain way
 A way that ignores, or screens out, the fact that
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 You see, it's as if you had a light covered with a black ball
 And in this ball were pinholes, and each pinhole is an aperture
 Through which the light comes out
 So in that way, every one of us is, actually
 A pinhole through which the fundamental light
 That is, the existence itself, looks out
 Only, the game we're playing is not to know this
 To be only that little hole, which we call
 "Me," "my ego," my specific "John Jones," or whatever
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 If, we can maintain, at the same time
 The sense of being this specific John Jones with his role in life
 Or whatever, and know also, underneath this
 That we are the whole works
 You get a very marvelous and agreeable arrangement
 A most remarkable harmoniousness
 I mean, it gives one's life a great sense of joy and exuberance
 If you can carry on these two things at once
 If you, in other words
 You know that all the serious predicaments of life are a game
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out
 Every one of us
 Is an aperture
 Through which the whole cosmos
 Looks out