The real truth, the whole of this moment of existence, is unknown, and will remain unknown.¹ You can never comprehend the reality of each moment, but can always feel it, because you are it. No words can express, no symbol represent, the experience of being.² To avoid the complex semantics of the many possible different terms for the ultimate truth of existence, the number 7³ is used. A counter, without referent. The abstraction of the signifier is also a reminder of the mystery of the signified. Being mindful of unknowability leads to humility and to empathy.⁴ You are not alone in your confusion: nobody knows the whole truth. Our imaginations work hard to shape what we perceive into comprehensibility.⁵ The world we see and learn and measure is true enough,⁶ but the terrifying mystery⁷ we do not comprehend is the only access we have to the real. Being is the only real beauty and the only undeniable truth.⁸ We have our reason, our creations, our memories, our tortures, our loves, our selves, and how wonderful and awful⁹ they are! But we never know why. And so what?¹⁰ The fruit of knowledge will always leave us hungry. Only embracing mystery brings peace. Only embracing the incomprehensible experience of now can save us.¹¹

1 “The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative.” - Time and Individuality, John Dewey 2 “Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.” - Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon 3 More freighted terms: universe, multiverse, spacetime, reality, existence, cosmos, Creation, being, … 4 “Empathy, Inner Imitation and Sense-Feelings” in A Modern Book of Æsthetics, Theodor Lipps 5 “Imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.” - Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant 6 “Truthiness is what you want the facts to be, as opposed to what the facts are.” - Stephen Colbert 7 “The secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. Allow one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.” - Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton 8 “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty.’ That is ye know and need to know.” - “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, John Keats 9 “Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it.” - “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, Monty Python 10 “I have a duty to look for truth, but not to find it.” - Pensées Philosophiques, Denis Diederot 11 “6.4311 If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein

1, 4.1, 4.7, 4.12, 4.18, 4.21, 5.1, 6.1, 6.5, 6.6, 6.12, 6.15, 6.17, 6.19,6.21, 6.26, 6.28, 6.35, 7.x.y.7, 7.x.y.12, 7.x.y.15, 7.x.y.18, 7.x.y.21

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Now is the time!