Up implies down, sharp implies dull, hot implies cold, the same way self implies other. The nature of the universe is that everything requires infinite variation and contrast. With out one thing nothing is. In knowing this you can understand that you are absolutely essential to all that is. And that you are it, not god in the politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of the deep down whatever there is. And with every being in the whole of the universe, you are all of them, only