And he said, there is no greater protection than the ability to deflect. And I said, there is no greater prison than the inability to sense. And he looked at me, and looked at me, and burst into tears…
In the rampant pace of life, during the ceaseless effort to secure everything that is available to us, we lose sight of what’s important. Like the kiss of a loved one. The smile of a child. The ability to wake up the next day and speak one’s mind and run round the block without having to explain why…
Moreover, with the spread of information and knowledge across the planet, there’s a sense of people awakening to realities previously unavailable to them. As things are, breaking the chains of the cave and venturing out into the great wide open is an increasingly common occurrence…
Overwhelmed by emotions, some people can’t handle the process. But others can, seizing the opportunity, embracing what they see. They adapt and change, reentering the field of a conscious and aware existence. Their insights are a guiding light to the richness of our sensory apparatus and the magical mind that drives it…
With the advance of science and the improvement of medicine, the issue becomes more than just philosophical, religious, artistic, or symbolic. It’s a phenomenon, observed in everyday life.
People born with physical disabilities, for example, are finally able to overcome their sensory handicaps and experience a wider spectrum of physical reality for the first time…
The same holds for people on the mass scale. Individuals have ventured out of their cultural stalemates, looking for answers, getting to know, interact and make friends with people they were’t familiar with. They bring stories back to us, tales and accounts of people/cultures/societies involved in their own quest for a life beyond boundaries…
It’s a beautiful world, if we choose to see beauty in it.