Thank you Schuyler for taking the time to reply. I sincerely enjoyed listening to your thoughts. Sometimes reading for me caters to many senses especially when the author is writing from within…places where few travel much less find harmony.
I like where you stopped. The paradox is compelling beyond the obvious and to it a pondering. I view the paradox between the finite [ the essential non-essential individual] and the infinite [ the wholly significant as you described it] beyond paradox to being separate as we stand in recognition of it. To be clear, the infinite can not be the finite or it would not be infinite. The infinite always remains infinite as if a rain cloud. When drops are emanated from the cloud [ human birth ] they are singular [ yet a derivative of the whole ] while when the body dies as when the rain drop falls into the ocean, it returns to the infinite body of the universal [ the infinite] and as in all cycles of nature the process ensues. The paradox disappears and is replaced with duality merged into cycles. Your thoughts… [ and a simple question; is the soul the consciousness within the infinite?] and pondering…are most welcome.
Thank you for listening. I wish for you a grand day ever in the moment.