Crying is never the problem.
Not crying is a problem.
Admitting that you are afraid—and actually being afraid—is harder than pretending you are not.
What is dangerous is a distance that becomes too great between you and your body, between you and your thoughts. You need to make that distance smaller from time to time; otherwise, you stop feeling anything at all. That’s why you should try to get to know yourself over and over again, as if you were feeling your own body for the very first time.
Your belly is the most important part: that’s where the strength lies. Your belly is like your voice: you must not lose it inside yourself for too long.
Where both the Big Bang and Genesis are true
“What something is” does not exist. Something does exist, but you need a way to look at it—a small anchor.
When I look at other people, I always see them in movement.
So what something is, depends on the anchor you use. For example, you might also only listen to what someone says.
Without an anchor you cannot see reality. And everyone uses a different anchor.
Both the story in Genesis and the Big Bang are anchors, because when there were no anchors yet, there was no reference point to understand reality. That only becomes possible once you have such a point.
The Big Bang and Genesis are therefore both true, but described from a different perspective, a different anchor.
When there was no movement yet, we could not describe reality in terms of movement—because it did not exist yet.
Your body explains things again and again from a different perspective.
That process is called consciousness. You exist simultaneously in every dimension. You are all your emotions, all your thoughts, and also one single thought, the bread you just ate, your kidneys, and your lungs—all at the same time. You are this side and also the other side. That is why your body always begins its explanation at a different starting point. Sometimes it begins with your belly, sometimes with your big toe, sometimes with your voice.