Ant or Elephant

You can build towards a point where you have the capacity to relax deeply. When you have gotten over the struggles between the ins and outs, and you have a deep sense that you, and what matters to you, can handle whatever life throws your way. That is about developing a philosophy that works for you. 

If you look at the “Om” symbol used in Yoga, there are three connected semi-circles separated from a dot by a fourth semi-circle. The dot is our individualized version of ourselves, separated by an illusion/ interpretation/ experience of everything else. Our real self is the whole, but we can get cornered, battered, constrained, and held back by the way we box, package, describe, and present ourselves. 

Our reality becomes a controlled hallucination where we interpret the information we receive through various sources. We process that information, and “make sense” of it. Sometimes our hallucination is shared with others, and sometimes it is ours alone. 

Like an ant, or an elephant, the scale at which we see is different and relative. When you grow up, chairs are huge. You may just peer over the table. When you return to visit your pre-school, it will be much tinier than in your memory. 

You need a process/practice to unpack the shadows and echoes of the pulsing hallucination when you realise your philosophy is an evolving tool to operate in the world. A philosophy with a pinch of salt, so that as you learn, you can see the world differently. Our perception becomes conversational.