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Impact of Perspective
The subject is the impact of perspective on spiritual life. Some see it as merely a tendency for distortion. They think we don’t see clearly because of our ego putting an overlay on spiritual experience. I would say individual experience is the life blood of the spiritual path. They say we all have a message we…
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Perception of Reality
You never perceive reality directly with your senses. It isn’t how it works. And how and what you perceive is determined by your focus, often subconsciously according to conditioning. If you can see what you don’t see, then your perspective isn’t a trap, it’s an incarnation. Many schools speak of a mental body in one…
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Narrow View of Reality
How can we trust our senses when they are so limited? Yet people do. But in fact there is something that makes you trust your senses and lies underneath the senses. Experience? No. That comes after and often leads to some cloudy thinking. The lack of alternatives? Also I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Emotions?…
Category: Perspective
Humility is a virtue only so far as it promotes proper perspective. We must not place an obsession with controlling ego before the principles that controlling our ego is supposed to serve. To claim wisdom requires a modicum of hubris. To believe that yes we can understand, at least in part.
Now regrettably, it’s like braham is sleeping. The human part of god is sleeping and tossing fitfully. Maybe is a bit drugged, considering the preponderance of that. Will the human spirit fall out of bed?
“Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life.” John J. Emerick