1-7-16 Fullness of Life
There is a dimensionality to Life that doesn’t occur in words and images. Language, while adequate and sufficient for describing reality cannot expand to the fullness of sensory perception. If I stop doing and pay attention to the space around me, it includes what I see, what I hear, what I feel. It includes voices, cars, birds, the hum of the furnace, the warm air on my legs, the music in the background, and the conversations of those in the other room. I notice that it is all ongoing, changing, a flow of information and sensation. I see that this body may feel central in location to all that is being perceived and felt, but there is no actual boundary, no inside or outside to reality. In describing this, in feeling this, it’s apparent that this fullness of reality has been dismissed, overlooked, taken for granted.
When reality is described through language and acted upon from that description, the words, although a reduction of the environment and the relationships, may seem so much more powerful and emotionally charged than the actuality of physical experience. An experience that is recalled and described takes on a psychological significance that the flow of experience didn’t have. The actual experience may leave no mark, no memory recorded. Only when an experience marks a shift, or a conflict, or an achievement will it seem significant enough to process in words and images for future reference or sharing.
We move between these states - the immediate perception of all that is around us and the psychological interpretation of what is considered worth recording. The state of "what is" cannot be fully absorbed or known and the psychological interpretation relies on this base for its contents. While the actuality of existence is not created by us, our interpretation of it, the image of it that is formed, this unique vision that human beings share is reliant on our relationship to the ingredients of Life.
(Image: The Inside and the Outside are the Same)
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