Points of View
When one is moving, our perspective is always fluid. Our perspective is created by the point from which we view the landscape of our lives. When we “adopt” a point from which to view our lives, we have a point of view. Anyone who stands beside us on this point will see things the way we do - almost. Imagine that you stand as a dot upon a painting. If you stand in the center and look east, you will see one thing. If you stand at the edge and look west, you will see others. From each point on the painting the question: “what do you see as true” must be answered slightly or completely differently. And this is just the point of view of one set of eyes on one painting. There are thousands upon thousands of paintings, all part of an unimaginably huge canvas of possibility. And even the eyes that stand looking at the same painting from a similar vantage point are different. Not only do we look at different parts of reality from different points of view, we look through different eyes. Our eyes are shaped not only by our physical make up, but our emotional/mental predispositions and the memories, thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes through which we filter both those memories and the data from our physical senses. Action: Accept that no one will ever view reality exactly as you do. It is a technical impossibility. This means that truth is bigger than any of us can imagine and that the skill of integrating multiple perspectives is more important than the impossible goal of getting others to see things our way.
Cresting the Waves:
A guide to sailing through life on
Relation-Ships
Dane E. Rose
