How your words travel in time & space

"some... seem to be angry with images for not being things, and with words for not being feelings.

"Words and images are like shells, no less integral parts of nature than are the substances they cover, but better addressed to the eye and more open to observation"

―George Santayana

Sometimes you wonder if the other person ever noticed how genuine (or fake) you were?

As a matter of mere realization, there are two zones of communication with others... the first is where our five senses are. It is where materials, logic & reasoning thrive.

In the other zone, the mind and sixth sense happen to be. It is where a book takes you, dreams are made, and people who pray and meditate abandon the world for. In the other zone belong trance and extacy.

Sensorial, the senses of the first zone, serves as a filtering gateway to the mind. If one had the five senses working well but was not present-minded, the senses are useless.

Unlike the old times, the mind today is almost always fully occupied with the sensorial. We often miss out a lot of the second zone's pleasures and peacefulness. Now if the mind is busy processing matters of the sensorial, mind becomes of no use.

In our communications with each other we often feel other's emotions trembling space. Even through the stale paper of a book written centuries ago, emotions can be felt.

When things are done emotionally, they get through better than having them done senselessly or even thoughtfully...

If a mind is involved, it is not just communication, it is actual acting and changing. An unseen, concealed kind of acting and changing.

The who that is you

 (c) Barbara Kruger - Untitled

Labels and tags have been placed on us many years now. Unintentionally, we embrace these labels, own them and prove them right.

We hear comments and compliments all the time. "You're stubborn!", so one acts stubborn in response because when it comes to who we are, we're ignorant .

Inside the materialistic exterior that we have formed --also known as personality, their lays an ego and a mind.

The ego is the who that we have been building up since learning the word 'I'... Forgetting the mind, the why we live and love.

Uniqueness is very common

Gerbera Gallery ((c) different owners flickr)

We have long devoted serious effort to be different, become unique and like.no.other.

Because the ego loves exaggerating its own worth, it keeps drawing lines, elevates itself (and you in the process) to be above the rest of the world, inflating with emptiness.

Fact is, we were born different. From different parents, in different places, on different dates. We keep forgetting this simple fact.

Nobody is the same... we're all equally alike in terms of uniqueness.

the Bias in Beauty

(c) [I don't know]

The perception of beauty that we follow is terribly distorted... it is tilted towards differentiation, and "what's in".

We are forced to like what we like by major industry players. Movies, TV, music, celebs, film festivals, fashion shows and magazines propagate images that are captioned "beautiful", "hot", and "trendy". An influence that you cannot ignore. 

If you question the beauty concept that we live by... does it represent who we really are or the insecurities corporate have placed in our minds?

What love is...

Human Heart (Mine) [(c) unknown]

Love starts with a condition --I will love you for your love, time, status, gifts, or even food.

Time changes this conditional love to an unconditional, pure love. Motherly love. 

i.e. a woman remains loyal and caring to her violent husband. Customers remain loyal despite the company's fraudulence. People love their country even though it is not so good.

Conditional love is worldly love. The ego needs it. I wants love and Attention.

Unconditional love is related to the mind, the "altered conscious". It is why parents wake up from sleep even before their child cries. It is why a person calls you when they suddenly come to your mind.

Why do you want to lose yourself

Salvator Dali (c)

Every person, at some point in their life, will need to lose their self and if they failed, they lose their minds.

This is how it happens: you lose yourself in a piece of drawing, a poem, music, binging, love, prayer or a book. Name it. I lost myself so many times solving algorithms.

This is why people seek love, they completely lose their sense of self and their mind and feelings stay focused on someone else...

It is how great artists got over their mean self-loathing egos, by focusing their attention, their hands and feelings on the art they make.

When people fail at finding a way to lose their self, they lose their minds, they will need extra help (pills, doctors, electric shocks) to reset their system and bring their ego to ground zero.

the Ego

(c) [I don't know]

I started off complaining about the ego with the assumption that you all know it. Pardon my ignorance.

Scientists explained the self, mind, or conscious differently, the most famous is Sigmund Freud's psyche model. 

Ego desires

Francis Bacon (c)

You might have heard of how bad it is to be categorized... be called a name, whether it was a good name or a bad one... Nobody wants that.

In another dimension, the ego strives to categorize itself and be different from other human beings, making you forget the real 'you'.

Affecting your freedom.
Your nothingness.

De categorize the self

Most people, family, friends, experts, scientists and HR people will unintentionally try to categorize you using simple labels and put you in a box within certain dimensions.

They might put you with creative masses, the stupid crowd, or the successful.

Be concerned for once they have done that, they will move on.

They want to learn about the next person they encounter, forgetting the massive potential a person like you have.


Your ego does that too.