I am convinced that my world-view can reflect many perspectives in any one moment. Some might say, well, make up your mind! Hmmm. Then I think, well, I understand more than one perspective and they are each possibly right or all possibly right or not.
In so many cases attaching oneself to one view is well…plain arrogant. Sometimes as the world and its aspects unfold before me, I am challenged to observe things in a new way. I try very hard not to be attached to one way or another, understanding that my points of view are a cacophony of influences…of truths and untruths. My field of view can be twisted and bent by kaleidoscopic distortions of possibility, desire, hope and doubt. It’s all OK. My goal is to observe, notice, reflect and learn. I can still have an opinion…and that could change with new information in a nano-second.
As the particles of the universe are constantly in motion, there is never a time in which they stand still long enough to create a fixed reality. In a breath, the vanishing point of my perception can shift. Could it be that reality is limited only by my thought? Or, the reality is that reality isn’t? This is where we get to practice suspending judgment. Remember that part?
To some it may seem a little scattered to hold more than one view-point on something; wishy-washy, uninformed, over-informed. To me, holding many, and even an opposing slant just means that I reside in a domain of the ‘possible’. Who are we to decide good, bad, right or wrong, true or untrue? In most cases ‘truth’ seems to be an apparition that changes form in accordance with one’s observation point and all that influences it. What was authentic yesterday is perhaps, with new information, today’s baldfaced lie. If it hasn’t been driven through the empirical science model of what defines truth (and even that changes often enough to demonstrate that ‘truth’ can change with new knowledge) don’t get too attached to one way of gathering evidence, filtering it and then projecting it. Why narrow the scope of opportunity to broaden your frames of reference, ideational or intellectual? Gather choices and options. They are abundant.
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