Livets Bog, vol. 1
A picture of the universe recognized on the basis of movement is unrealistic
234. If the individual finds himself in motion by virtue of his sense-organs and that which these organs are directed towards is also in motion, how is it then possible to grasp a genuine picture of the universe? All that is sensed is only a sensing of movements in relation to other movements. Our own sensing is thus only experience of the difference between our own present movement and the movement of our surroundings. The picture of the world which we form from these experiences, or these conditions, is in this way not really a true picture of the universe, which means it certainly cannot be an expression for the "fixed point" of existence or of the universe. If we assume therefore that the relation between our own movement and the movement of our surroundings is the "fixed point" in life we are living in an illusion. In this case we would be living on a "truth" which is dissolving - a truth which is also movement and therefore represents change.