We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.