Selective perception; it’s limitations, inevitability and utility:
The human being is bound by natural laws. There is a finite, limiting trait to every single aspect of his life.
The same applies to his perceptibility. He is bound to be selective and limited in his perception. It helps the human being to notice the details. To focus and stay put.
The drawback though is that this sort of perceptibility comes in different shapes, sizes and shades thus the lens needs to be changed often for if worn long enough, every single concept and fact becomes tinted.
The human mind is susceptible to the method a concept is perceived in and it stores each such information automatically. e.g
If a person as a child is constantly exposed to one aspect of a story, image or conversation. He will retain that memory and whenever that issue or topic is bought up, the mind will automatically offer images and bits and pieces from its stores as ready interpretation. This is where it becomes important to have read much and to have conversed and learnt from diverse sources.
The richer the memory store, the greater the possibility of a comprehensive and flexible perception.
The catch here is though that to be comprehensive and to be able to learn to view ideas, people and events more holistically one has to accept ones own limitations and surrender to ones own inability to see everything all the time and in every given circumstance.
Diversity does not mean difference and opposition just for the sake of it. For example, if three people are standing around an object and viewing it from three different sides, their difference and opinion is budding from the same object of observation or the same truth but a person standing far away looking at a completely different shape cannot claim to differ or call them out as wrong unless he has viewed that object from their respective angles.
For diversity to be actually contributive and wholesome to our vision it has to grounded in something permanent. Something real and lasting. Something which does not keep changing. Such an eternal foothold cannot come from a finite and limited being. It has to come from an eternal unlimited source. It has to be divine.
The inevitability of this selectivity often drives human beings to extremes. This very mentality results in the sort of questioning that “why me?” “Why not Him” . This selective perceptibility though is also self limiting but only when stretched to an extreme and when much damage has already been caused.
It is also this very nature of selective perceptions that makes faith inevitable.
The craze to go into every detail. The craze to find out by testing every single aspect of life to its extreme. The craze to research every aspect of human ability or nature will eventually lead us to our own annihilation.
The foothold, faith or tawakul stops us from going to extremes and helps us in coming to terms with the fact that we don’t know everything and will not know everything.
It helps us realise that the other might be viewing it differently because of a different angle.
It helps us realise that instead of jumping from one lens to another we need to stick together so that the one who’s taller can help us see what’s up and the one who is shorter can see what’s down and in this way together we can see the whole picture.
Trying to view faith itself from any other lens will never grant us faith. Faith itself needs to be viewed with complete surrender. Nothing less!
We were meant to work together and for that very purpose the best lens is the lens of faith and tawakul as it is holistic and grounded in the eternal.
#havefaith
#surrender
The human being is bound by natural laws. There is a finite, limiting trait to every single aspect of his life.
The same applies to his perceptibility. He is bound to be selective and limited in his perception. It helps the human being to notice the details. To focus and stay put.
The drawback though is that this sort of perceptibility comes in different shapes, sizes and shades thus the lens needs to be changed often for if worn long enough, every single concept and fact becomes tinted.
The human mind is susceptible to the method a concept is perceived in and it stores each such information automatically. e.g
If a person as a child is constantly exposed to one aspect of a story, image or conversation. He will retain that memory and whenever that issue or topic is bought up, the mind will automatically offer images and bits and pieces from its stores as ready interpretation. This is where it becomes important to have read much and to have conversed and learnt from diverse sources.
The richer the memory store, the greater the possibility of a comprehensive and flexible perception.
The catch here is though that to be comprehensive and to be able to learn to view ideas, people and events more holistically one has to accept ones own limitations and surrender to ones own inability to see everything all the time and in every given circumstance.
Diversity does not mean difference and opposition just for the sake of it. For example, if three people are standing around an object and viewing it from three different sides, their difference and opinion is budding from the same object of observation or the same truth but a person standing far away looking at a completely different shape cannot claim to differ or call them out as wrong unless he has viewed that object from their respective angles.
For diversity to be actually contributive and wholesome to our vision it has to grounded in something permanent. Something real and lasting. Something which does not keep changing. Such an eternal foothold cannot come from a finite and limited being. It has to come from an eternal unlimited source. It has to be divine.
The inevitability of this selectivity often drives human beings to extremes. This very mentality results in the sort of questioning that “why me?” “Why not Him” . This selective perceptibility though is also self limiting but only when stretched to an extreme and when much damage has already been caused.
It is also this very nature of selective perceptions that makes faith inevitable.
The craze to go into every detail. The craze to find out by testing every single aspect of life to its extreme. The craze to research every aspect of human ability or nature will eventually lead us to our own annihilation.
The foothold, faith or tawakul stops us from going to extremes and helps us in coming to terms with the fact that we don’t know everything and will not know everything.
It helps us realise that the other might be viewing it differently because of a different angle.
It helps us realise that instead of jumping from one lens to another we need to stick together so that the one who’s taller can help us see what’s up and the one who is shorter can see what’s down and in this way together we can see the whole picture.
Trying to view faith itself from any other lens will never grant us faith. Faith itself needs to be viewed with complete surrender. Nothing less!
We were meant to work together and for that very purpose the best lens is the lens of faith and tawakul as it is holistic and grounded in the eternal.
#havefaith
#surrender
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