February 14, 2008
- Lenses. Illusion. -
We are lenses, diamonds, ice cubes, in a river.
We should be spherical, flawless, like a clear pane of glass. An empty mirror.
Instead, we usually (always? Who knows for sure?) have flaws, scratches, imperfections. As these are imperfections in our self, we have difficulty seeing them objectively (and in fact, when we do manage to see them objectively, when we go into them and understand them, they disappear). Often, in order to see these imperfections, we have to strive for an objective understanding of reality, and compare it to the image of reality we hold in our mind.
It is like seeing heat-lines rising off of a sunbaked sidewalk, or imperfections in a pane of glass. You have to follow the edge of reality, and see where is is bent by the flaw in your own perception.
This is one facet of illusion.
