We can blame so many things for what we believe to be an injustice, a failure, an unlucky moment or a stupid choice. Yes, we can blame ourselves too, but even then, we will blame something outside ourselves. Our education, society, traumas, hormones, negativity or something else, like money or disease. And we go along, complaining and blaming, blaming and complaining.
What if someone you consider above the majority in eloquence, intelligence and intuition, told you that you are the sole responsible for where you are. That you and only you can be accountable of where you are, who with and in what mode or manners.
Well, immediately you'd disagree, but then, remember I said it was someone knowledgeable that was talking with you, so imagine that this person or entity had the power to intervene in your simplistic idea of what you are, and ignite it into something bigger, wider, expansive.
It could start as simple as just by asking you how many senses do you believe to have? Five, or could you actually defy Aristoteles and after some delay, respond that maybe there could be six or seven...
We sort of know this. There's so much left unexplained when we reduce our perception of the world to only five senses. You can come up with the sense of intuition, of cinestesia or proprioception, of light or space.
Our problem in this challenge of broadening up our views is that, as we go along into opening our perspective of the world, we also realize that nothing happens separately of anything. That the main principle's basis starts with a unifying force, conjuncture and not so much trough the diversifying concept that we so much love to highlight. We love to point out the differences between us, between concepts and ideas, it simplifies, excludes things, and we feel more in control of the mess we're all in, but when we want to get closer with someone, with something, that's when we search for commonness, resemblance, and one feels the connection, the link that had been missing. We all want and search for that union.
So, back to our five senses, we can feel something just by seeing it, or imagining it. We can taste or feel it through the idea of it. We don't have only five senses, and the reason why it's hard to measure them it's because it all correlates. Our brain, our tongue or sight. Nothing in us stands just by itself. It's a whole system where everything interconnects.
... and that's where it all gets complicated and we give up and decide to go back to our methodic systematic way of understanding the world. Our single, enclosed perspective.
Yes, we do it to ourselves.
"(...) Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."
Try to understand.
