The world we know cannot be wholly mind-independent, and it cannot be wholly mind-dependent. What is required is an attentive response to something real and other than ourselves, of which we have only inklings at first, but which comes more and more into being through our response to it- if we are truly responsive to it. We nurture it into being; or not. In this it has something of the structure of love.
The whole illuminates the parts as much as the parts can illuminate the whole. The world we experience- which is the only one we can know- is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.The choice we make of how we dispose our consciousness is the ultimate creative act: it renders the world what it is. It is, therefore, a moral act: it has consequences.
~Iain McGilchrist
from the first wild life experience to the last…
inquiry for today~ may you sense your life on a growth spectrum….
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised,
our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience.
~Richard Rohr
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