A World of Perspective
Part 2 of ‘Surrender to the Mystery: On knowing and the Power of Not-Knowing’
Part 1 Here: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/surrender-to-the-mystery-a0cc003a3380
Communication can be challenging.
Most of our communication is non-verbal. When we share, it is not just the ideas we speak that we are conveying, but also the emotions and past experiences that inform them. Yet, so often, folk will immediately fasten onto the words and not receive all that comes with them, which would make the words so much more understandable if the rest was received.
At the best of times, it can be challenging for even two people to reach a meeting of minds and hearts.
We have all had the experience of saying something we thought totally obvious, only to find ourselves thoroughly misunderstood. Or of saying one thing, only to discover that our listener heard another.
These experiences are mere symptoms of the fact that, though we may speak the same language, people are always interpreting one another through the context of their own life experience, preconceptions and projections.
This is why communication is so often a process and so rarely an instantaneous thing.
