Living out of silence, out of a fully functioning, lovingly attentive mind, and not just out of thought, out of a partially functioning mind, is requisite for depth or profundity in living or relating. A fully attentive, truly silent or meditative mind sees that there is real dualism of time and the timeless and that time and the timeless each has its own unique value. The timeless, or real silence, that which alone can make for depth in one’s living and relating, can be there only when, in one’s awareness, time and all that is related to time have come to an end.
An examination of a wide variety of statements made by writers, both past and present, shows that these understandings are seldom there in contemporary writings, just as they were not there in writings that have come down to us from the past. Living beyond the One and the Many invites readers to consider the possibility that what is presented in it can bring deep meaning to one’s way of living in the world.