Suppose you accidentally knock a glass of water off the table, make it fall on the floor and smash. What would you say? “I broke the glass” or something similar. But was it really you that broke the glass? Let's see. What you actually did was make the glass enter the field of a force that existed prior to your action (your knocking the glass off the table), i.e. the force of gravity. Caught up in the field of this force and because of the very nature of its matter, the glass then smashed on the floor.
Every moment of our lives it is not us causing things to happen; rather, it is us who go either along or against the forces that make the world balance. When we go along these forces, silence is produced: nothing extraordinary, nothing visible happens. When we go against them, the balance is disturbed and noise and chaos arise. It's like in a peaceful day - everything going smoothly - when suddenly you cut your hand. All of your attention, all of your consciousness, your entire focus turns to the cut. The sense of peacefulness fades away and suddenly the only thing you can be aware of, is the blood running from the cut and your pain.
This is more or less why (and how) we perceive of the world as falling apart around us, how it seems that evil prevails. In reality, it is balance that prevails, but balance produces only silence and does not catch our attention.
Which brings us to another self-illusion: all of us want to do something great, we want to “make noise”. Wanting to do something great is not a bad thing. It is just that greatness is achieved by people who keep it small and simple, without having it in mind. Life is vast on its own and only when we keep it small and simple can we gain access to its greatness.
Of course, we always have to do it through conventions and compromises. We have to go about life, “as if” we knew what is all about. We have to operate in it, “as if” we could grasp its meaning, “as if” we knew the truth, otherwise we will not be able to make decisions and without a decision-making process, we would die. There is no other road to survival than our very subjectivity. This is not to say, nonetheless, that one mustn't be at all times aware of the conventions he makes in order for existence and co-existence to be possible and this includes the system of fears and threats he has put in place in order to guard these conventions.
The awareness of our subjectivity is the tool that will eventually guide us to mirror wisdom and from there to the conclusion that “everyone's right”, that everyone reflects the level of truth they understand and that all levels are crucial to the world. And then, suddenly, through this understanding, and while we were looking for a theory that would explain everything, we may see that we are just a step away from the sense of unity with everything there is.
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