Laerte ... Bravo!

Até a Luz, a Luz me cercar e Eu voltar pró meu lugar

Esta noite eu quero cantar
Dançar e voar, wow ooh!
Quero ver luzes, muitas
Quero ser um pássaro

Quero ver os peixes a bailar
E as ideias a gritar
Quero voar para, até ver

O mar pegar fogo
O campo, incendiar

Até a luz, a luz me cercar

E eu voltar pró meu lugar 

The Nature Fix

The Health Benefits of the Great Outdoors

I dare to write that not many people know the benefits of being in Nature. I'm sure they have felt it and appreciated it, but there has been a lot of writing about it and it's hard to understand why any dissertation on the benefits of being in Nature can still feel like "new age" fiction for so many.

The benefits are true and the amazing mind and soul advantages of walking barefoot or just looking through a window into a beautiful nature scenery can be proved.

Unfortunately because of the intense usage of smartphones, urbanisation and digital creep, the crucial fact of where you are, seems no to matter, but that's not true. Where you are makes a huge difference on how you feel, right here, right now.

"In this here place, we flesh;

flesh that weeps, laughs;

flesh that dances on bare feet in grass.

Love it. Love it hard."

- 

Toni Morrisson

David Thoreau emphasised the act of walking, and how much benefit it would bring to him, but he would be walking in the "wild". Wondering lonely as a cloud, the poet William Wordworth used his poetry to look at the relationship between Nature and human life, and to explore the belief that Nature can have an impact on our emotional and spiritual lives. He considered Nature as a source of consolation and joy, as well as a great teacher, guardian and nurse.

We've got the art of shinrin yoku, or forest bathing, where the goal is to allow Nature into your body through all five senses. As the Zen student asks his teacher "How do you see so much?" and the teacher responds, "I close my eyes".

It's possible to recover from stress in Nature. Creativity and peace are unleashed when you take off your watch, turn off your devices and head into the wild. Nature allows us to recenter in this time of distraction. The reality is that we have far more information than we can deal with. Most of what the brain is doing is filtering, turning stuff off so we can focus in things that are relevant.

Nature can heal anxiety. How? By pulling people away from stress towards something more meaningful than the punishing grind of work and study.

Nothing hits the brain's emotional neurons more powerfully than odor, and the amazing scent of walking through the woods really elevates your spirit.

The world is also getting louder, and just because you don't notice certain noises anymore doesn't mean your brain is not on some level responding to them. Go into Nature and listen to the sound of the Earth without us. There's something real about the phrase "you can't hear yourself think". Noise, especially if noticed, will annoy you. And the more you start noticing the worst it feels.

Sight will also induce us into certain mental states, as author Diane Ackerman writes about the craving for the "visual opium" of a sunset. It is said that the famous painter Jackson Pollock painted nature's fractals 25 years ahead of their scientific discover. Nanoparticle physicist Richard Taylor chose to study Nature to figure out the most efficient ways to move electricity like those found in river systems, lung bronchi or cortical neurons, and through his studies he saw how in very tiny devices the order of current would break down, and so, as an ordered chaos he saw that the pattern was actually there, but in different scales: fractals. Now he’s actually using “bioinspiration" to build a better solar panel. If trees and plants are branched, why not do the same?

In other cases, the opposite also happens, there’s no aha feeling, insight, but instead a real mind-altering, health-giving effect is induced, but in these cases the subject is immerse in wildish landscapes. As described by journalist and activist Leppanen “Metsanpeitto is about getting lost in beauty. It can have a taste of freedom, nature-union, joy.”

To be grateful is good for your health, and for the economy! Opposite to most countries where usually the right person for the job is selected until it burns out, in Finland, since the pool of workers is very limited, the individuals are kept for as long as possible. How? By keeping them happy. How? By inviting Nature into everyone’s life. They know the more Nature you experience, the better you feel. Scientifically Nature causes immediate effects like lowering our pulse rate and parasympathetic nervous system response of feelings such as peace and well-being.

Even Darwin considered empathy and compassion to be our strongest instinct, one that launched the success of the human species. By taking good care of each other, we thrived through long childhoods, sicknesses and food shortages.

The body’s vagus nerve it’s connected to our oxytocin receptors. This hormone, also called the love hormone, which causes a humming sensation in our upper back, can also be released through a response of the vagus nerve to Awe. An Awe that tis felt as an outward happiness, love, no need for attachment or possessions. This awe feeling also promotes curiosity, murmuration, pushing fear away. When there’s no inner censorship or insecurity, creativity happens. That’s why Nature is such a great channel for distraction from unwelcome thoughts. We are living in an overwhelmed world, and for us, and our children, it’s important to keep learning through exploration, not just by copy paste. As neuroscientist Daniel Levitin affirms, we are consuming averagely 74 gigabytes of data per day. For a strong cognitive and emotional development, we need, specially children, exercise and exploratory play. Both are within our reach.

Please go outside, into Nature, often. Don’t leave any garbage behind. Respect Nature’s holistic space. Turn your phone off. Breathe. Life feels much better when it's simple.

“The faint whisper of rain and running water

was still there 

and it had the same tender note of solitude and perfection”

_

Tove Jansson 

Nanan - Casa da Floresta

Hate is not a weapon of rebellion but of cowardice

In the first of the six basic philosophies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. essay, “An Experiment in Love,” the six essential principles of his philosophy of nonviolence are examined, and one of the main ideas that challenges us is the statement that we tend to mistake nonviolence for passivity, pointing out that it is a form not of cowardice but of courage.

You have to be strong not to react with the same anger or violence that sometimes is thrown to you.
You have to be strong not to push away and fight,

but look straight at the problem in order to come with a solution.

"Nonviolent resistance [requires] a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation, to accept blows from the opponent without striking back…"

How does one keep Kindness and Love as the core of his/her choices?

We can think of the obvious: whatever feeling you choose to hold close to you will be the one that you'll carry with you and be intensified in the universe. Which one do you wish to hold on to?

If you feel upset, hurt by someone or community, instead of staying stuck on being right or wrong, worthy or unworthy, think of a greater good, to restore the community, to restore a sense of belonging and faith in the future. Tune into harmony, by inclining the mind in the direction of good will.

There is courage in the dailiness and nobility in the effort. There is strength in this process of trying and failing. Of beginning again.

"In every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love…"

- Tosltoy's Letters to Gandhi published in the book "A Letter to a Hindu"

Cultivate Love, Wisdom and Beauty.

The change will be amazing.

As manifested by Mahatma Gandhi “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do."

Riding the Wave...

May you never believe that the strength you have it's only ignorance.
May you never believe that your creativity is childish
May you always feel in Love and appreciate who you are, whatever the conditions, whatever the story that you were told, by yourself or others. Let go.
Feel the energy of good things, good actions and good thoughts.

Don't let your own inner strength turn against you as fear.

Ride the wave with pleasure, with awareness and most of all, connected with the immense warm bright joyful energy from where seeds grow, flowers blossom, clouds move and waves form...
from where you and me came from.

That which you resist persists. Let yourself go... ride the wave.
Lose your mind to find your soul.

AUDI - ELECTRIC WAVE from Lorin Askill on Vimeo.

Change course, but never give up...

While in the majority of our days we choose to mystify, could we follow that hint, that small but passionate hint, to clarify who we are and why do we still chose to exist, even when confronted with pain.

Something does stop us. Something also leads us.

Through Art we're seduced to leave all our considerations behind, and the pleasure of discovering ourselves completely evaded of expectations, can be felt in our innermost intimacy.

It's that thin line between solitude and loneliness. Solitude becomes the space you eagerly look for in the chaos of repetitive unstable thoughts, and loneliness... loneliness draws you further away from simplicity, from peace and consequently from love, self or towards others.

"We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person. (...) We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone."

_
Sara Maitland

To indulge in solitude doesn’t make us aggressive towards another, on the contrary, we become better able to connect, to listen and appreciate the natural space it exists between two people, like the ocean and it's opposite shores. Words can flow, as well as the sweet warmth of silence.

In this I believe...

Change course, but never give up knowing yourself.

Forever

Missed you for so long, to the point I started doubting you had in fact existed, but my imagination could never create the amazing moments of just being by your side. The simplicity of how everything just fitted in, no questions or doubts or anxiety for wanting more, nothing, pure peace, pure clearance of mind, body and spirit, all into a single point in space and time where you and me just were.

But you told me to let go and not constrain in my corporality, the vastness of what we can't understand and only feel through our meditative breath.

Missed you so much, for I lost myself too while searching for you. But you told me not to miss you, and asked me to trust not in my need for stories and facts, but in my intuitive driven belief that you and me still were. And not knowing, we still were who we had been, a you and a me, just happy to be.

"Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time."

_

W.H. Auden

We are beings of time and in time, a time that constrains eternity. From missing you I've learned that. I felt that and breathed in. A moment is not just this second, it's everything all at once.

Yes, you dared to think the unthinkable, you had always hope in yourself while I choose despair. I did not see how defiance would have brought me enough reason to hope. That's when I lost you in your immense kindness of not blaming me for fighting for toughness, instead of just simply holding your hand and letting it go.

Today I let go. Today I trust completely in you, in me, and all that is part of everything we don't see, but feel, the completeness of an expanding unity. Today I whisper gently to you what I've learned from missing you, that man's most precious quality ever is Love.

"(...) I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.
The inner freedom from the practical desire,
The release from action and suffering, release from the inner
And the outer compulsion, yet surrounded
By a grace of sense, a white light still and moving"
_
T.S. Elliot

Dignity in staying alive

"Who are we when we are together with no one but ourselves?"

_

Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't fail to stay young and curious (or ignorant with thirst for knowledge).
Unlearn the habit of having to be someone else or nothing at all. Stop practicing the imitation of other voices and mistaking the faces of others for your own.

When we search outside for approval, for proof of some sanity, we loose what we feel as most precious to us, the self.

Everything that is good and joyful and fruitful comes from the pleasure of living the self freely. No fear, no resentment. Accepting our nature, accepting our foolish ways. 

We were all born with specifics traits, stop denying them. Work them out, sculpt them smoother, find a more balanced shape, but don't change your own nature, the same way a sculptor would ruin a piece by destroying the real nature of the material it is working on. Even the artist that burns or covers his piece, is showing the true nature of his intentions, and the nature of the chosen material.

We tend to hold on to this idea that Life is this sort of packaged experience.
No, we are unwrapped off, right when we are born into this world.

Who we are was not borrowed from anything else. We are, we are born to be.
And today, tomorrow, or yesterday, we will always be who we have become and so much of what we have not become...

... Don't quit, don't run away. Face those ghosts.

There's dignity in being optimistic. Believe in that.
There's dignity in Hope.

There's dignity in trying to stay alive.

Life is brief, and we all know that what truly makes us want to survive, even in the face of a hard prognosis, are those comforting recollections of what we meant to another…

On the opposite side, the heaviest burden in dying, is the feeling of regret over conflicts unresolved, breached relationships not healed, potential unfulfilled, promises not kept, words that were not said.

But... to find some comfort in all that cannot be changed, through those pitfalls of decision-making, forgive yourself, have the willingness to accept responsibility for your own life and...

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” (meaning, laugh of yourself, and life's unfair rules)

_

Viktor Frankl

We didn't know any better, or we just didn't have in ourselves the strength to collapse and cry, and show the verge of madness we felt inside ourselves.

The only cure, path to find that "dignity" in being alive? ... stay kind with yourself, which can only be reached through Love. Only through Love can you see yourself as you who truly are, can you look into someone else's eyes. We have to touch and be touched. We must gain Dignity, Respect.

Flirting with Existence

Do you want to feel more alive than everyday life?

...
More alive?
Can you?!

You know you can, you have felt it, maybe it’s not living, maybe it’s something else, a deeper/lighter/bigger/expansive, an unscope feeling of breathing, moving and I guess, something closer to existing.

... I know what it is to exist. I live, and exist in a palpable way, but I wonder if I shouldn’t be closer to the stars, to nature itself if I want to affirm and believe that I exist. Scientist will tell me that obviously I do, but with some imagination, even that can be discussed. I can’t understand it using its opposite, to not exist, as I also don’t know what it feels like.

Do you think that to exist you need to feel, and once you stop feeling you cease to exist?

... Well, dead people don’t feel.

So, the more you feel, the more alive you’ll be?

Seems to fit into it.

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. To be alive is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking. No one can be taught to feel, it takes courage, for it’s a one-self private experience that comes with many risks, but I’d say, risks that are surely worth taking, or so I feel

“We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible in it. That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”

_

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be alive is an amazing feeling, and look at some of the synonyms for the word “amazing”: surprising, bewildering, stunning, staggering, shocking, startling, stupefying, breathtaking, perplexing, confounding, dismaying, disconcerting, shattering; unbelievable… scary, isn't it?
A mystery walk into the woods of the unknown.

But it's this flirting with the unknown, the urge to go beyond the boundaries of the established, taught, that feeds our creative impulse, that's makes us want to feel more, and strive into feeling more alive. Yes you can feel more alive, if you allow yourself to feel and embrace all the feelings that come with the openness and courage to be vulnerable to feelings. Feel them, talk about them, but don't keep them. Let them fly free as water!

In a silent space.
I hear a voice
It whispers...
It sings...
At times it even cries out...

Like a wave
When it breaks on the ocean shore
It falls into pieces
Of that, which is called "me"


Particles of "me", particles of "you"...
Particles of "we"
The endless facets of a diamond
United in one breath

The beat of my heart echoes yours
A rhythm that resonates in every living thing
What if this voice that speaks in me
Is a key?
For a non-existing door...
Careful and unsure....
I take flight...


What do I know?
So much...but somehow nothing...

And if I'm honest with myself
All those memories
Short ones and long-lasting....
Are just dust....

What if I start from scratch...the empty page...
Stop running...
YES! This time, I'm here...
And to all those years...months'...and days..
I give thanks... I give thanks...

I stand on the cliff of my mind
It cries out in fear:
"Don't jump! You'll die"...

Those whirling thoughts....
As autumn leaves lifted by a wind
They dance... and sing:
"What will happen if you dive deep within?"

Face these guardian demons...
That are holding souls in chains..
As it seems...

Beliefs... dogmas... ideals... standards...
Theatrical performances...
Such fear games...

Who is that "true me"?
Who's hiding behind all these masks?
Absorbing the whole world
Who's writing all those stories?
It's like someone created a game and lives in it...

What if I stop for a moment...
Take rest from all these thoughts
Letting the world "be"... as it is...

Trusting heart's purity..
Into a Great Sea I dive...
Who am I?
Please answer!

I'm falling again...
Doubts are crawling in...
My wings got twisted...

Despair, disappointment...
Because of these questions-answers...
Mind games...

Loneliness and sadness...
These old companions...
So demanding...

I'm tired of myself, fighting…
Illusionary symbols...
Pretended sharing...
If you give, we give...
We are more and they are less...
Defining whites, blacks...reds....yellow...blue...
Only some are useful ...
But...is it all really true?!

All I believe in...
Just like passing clouds
Only stories...
All kinds...

I let them go...
And the need to know...
What...when...and why....

I lay down upon Mother Earth...
Trusting... she knows it all!

We give her names...
Dividing her by visible lines
While…
She is undivided and One!

Why not to choose peace…?
The choiceless peace!

I'm trusting this moment, opening...
My heart is opening...

Where is this meeting place with myself?
Yes! I know…it's inside...

But a soul...
No age...or race...or situation...
She smiles...
Smiles...she is...
And fear disappears when I'm BEING THAT!

Standing on Earth...
And also in the skies...
It’s quite effortless to die...knowing...
And to be born again...
Without dying...


How to describe in words what I feel?
Just smiling...
Breathing into joy...

Each dawn I'm born
Each night I die...
Dissolving "the who" and "what" and "why"

I'm a man...and a woman also...
I'm a bird...a child...
Clouds...and a sky...
I'm a stone in a stream
And a wave...that whispers to a shore:
Here...I am...

The sun is setting...
A gentle breeze is caresses my skin...
All senses are resting...
And calmness...is here....
Loving heart's space...
I exist...
Me doesn't

All is...
And every change is just a new beginning...

From the Inside to the Outside

Because

"There is nothing inspiring about a person's imperfections on display."

We have all been there (or are).

Life feels empty of any content, and the question, why we're here, does not get any answer. I'm here for my family and kids, I'm here for my job, I'm here because my parents did what nature intended them to do...  but we don't get the "why" behind the facts. This "why" is what we call the "Meaning of Life"

Starting in a simplistic way, Life does feel many times as that first day at school...
Why?! Mum? Dad... don't leave me...
Who am I here? How should I act?
Hum... Ok, I'm not the only one... but this feels strange.
But then you find out the things you like the most and you focus your attention on them, becoming the fastest runner, or reader, or a great storyteller, or a quiet observer, and not because you though of becoming one, but because you followed your gut, you followed what gave you pleasure!

As we grow, we also learn that life is even better when we're not just focused on our self-pleasure, and we get motivated by engaging in groups and later on, in making someone else happy. First our parents, teachers, best friends and one day, that one person we start dreaming about.

If we had gotten stuck on being upset and frustrated, no way we would have reached this far. We would be stuck in kindergarten! Complaining and acting as victims of a world that does not understand us.

So, in the most simplistic way, it all comes down to our choices. And where do we make them? Inside. Inside ourselves. We can be driven, suggested, manipulated even, but in the end, it's always our inner self that makes that last decision. So workout that muscle!

We're always searching for meaning, for that self drive. That inner power that breaks through our fears and insecurities. But here's where it gets confusing.
The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, can't be rationalised, for meaningfulness is a by-product of engagement and commitment. We have to live and experiment to find meaning.
Only when we go for it, trial and error style, do we know what really drives us into the right direction, to what gives us an identity and beliefs.

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

_

Stanley Kubrick

But don't just jump and see. Get to know yourself by caring of your health, your social life, and so importantly, your mind. Read, write, think things through, don't let your brain get lazy in the same old same patterns, challenge it! This is called (again, in a simplistic way) to care of yourself.

Not caring for yourself leads to loneliness, and loneliness it's the saddest of feelings.

When a loved one passes away, it's the loneliness of not being able to share with them any more thoughts that hurts the most. When Love breaks apart, it's the loneliness of questioning what that love really was that keeps us in the dark, be it between lovers or children and their parents.

But if we care for ourselves, we find out what it is that we particularly like, what it is that makes us laugh, jump, sing, and we do it, ultimately finding space in our life to give to others who didn't care for themselves. We feel pleasure in giving and being compassionate.

So, what's our purpose here, and why are we here? Blank hard truth...
We are here to let the "sunshine" in, grow, love and share ideas, thoughts or feelings, and give fruit!
So, find your self strength, and get out of that cave you've been in.

"Plato then supposes that one prisoner is freed. This prisoner would look around and see the fire. The light would hurt his eyes and make it difficult for him to see the objects casting the shadows. If he were told that what he is seeing is real instead of the other version of reality he sees on the wall, he would not believe it. In his pain, Plato continues, the freed prisoner would turn away and run back to what he is accustomed to (that is, the shadows of the carried objects). He writes "... it would hurt his eyes, and he would escape by turning away to the things which he was able to look at, and these he would believe to be clearer than what was being shown to him."[3]

Plato continues: "Suppose... that someone should drag him... by force, up the rough ascent, the steep way up, and never stop until he could drag him out into the light of the sun."[3] The prisoner would be angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when the radiant light of the sun overwhelms his eyes and blinds him.[3]

"Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can only see shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself (516a)."[3] Only after he can look straight at the sun "is he able to reason about it" and what it is."

_ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

Don't be afraid. We are all in the same boat. We don´t live separated from anything, we are all part of something. We are all part of a "one" thing, and if what we choose to give to this "whole" are only negative feelings and sad thoughts, we're not only hurting ourselves but others also. So don't allow yourself to get stuck in fear and frustration. Follow the sunshine, the positive, the poetry and contemplation.

“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded"
_
Hannah Arendt

That's why...

"There is nothing inspiring about a person's imperfections on display."
Don't remain as a victim. Heal. See yourself from a loving and caring you.
Take the risk and be surprised with the beauty inside yourself and how it reflects on others.


TheButterflyCircus - HD from The Butterfly Circus on Vimeo.

The Soul

Imagine a Soul, with no sensations, no memory or reason. Only conscious of itself and never aware of any other object beyond itself. Moving through the World without ever connecting with anything outside, following only its own necessary path.

This Soul it's only a word to us, that once was released into the air, and, as any word, became reflected in multiple bodies, with minds, feelings and a past.

And that's where we live, attached to sensations, memories and a constant need for reason.

A terrible thing that happens to us is sad, but it's worst if it controls who we become.

That's why there are so many forms of Art. We know we can be lift up to higher states of mind through contemplation. We can abandon our clothes, our bodies and be lift up into a state of pure simplicity and deeper understanding through Music for example, or a poem, or by letting ourselves immerse in Natures's delicate strength.

Action is a shadow of contemplation. If only one could keep himself in that unifying feeling of contemplating the amazing act of existing. No dispersion, but pure ecstasy of releasing ourselves from the physical world and contemplate the no absence of anything, for in letting ourselves rise up we become one with everything. Maybe the body is inside the Soul, and not the other way around.

“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine. (...) The world is knowable, harmonious, and good. (...) The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
_
Plotinus

You do it to yourself...

"... and that's what really hurts".

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.