Stepping Back

Like planets circling the sun, like electrons round the nuclei of the atom, our "life" should be an orbit around reality. But our perceptions wear blinkers -- they can only perceive one segment at a time, a split-second vision of a slice of reality, which we build up into a continuity, like a cinema-film made up of "stills." Unfortunately, we take each slice as a thing-in-itself whereas it is merely a segment, the relative reality being the totality. But the totality is not the totalisation of fragments which only represent a fraction...

~ from Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon ~

Often, when we believe that someone is looking at the scope of a situation too narrowly, we are apt to say, "You need to step back to look at the whole enchilada." The key premise here is that, when we shield our eyes from the many variables of any given circumstance, we are limiting the possible solutions.

However, no matter how far we step back, we find ourselves limited by the same constraints. We could step back to the edge of the universe and we would still not be able to see the entirety of reality!

As the above passage points out, we can only view fragments of the life process. Our finiteness excludes the ability to see the infinite and the infinite is where reality lies.

What we call a moment is but a freeze frame of an ever-evolving process.

I often wonder if the entirety of human history is nothing more than a dew drop or the wisp of a summer breeze. What we each term as our life is nothing more than a strand of a cobweb. Each moment nothing more than the infinite blink of an eye.