Showing posts with label Illusions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illusions. Show all posts
September 15, 2018
Reflections B4 Yom Kippur
Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, "Reflections Before Yom Kippur."
"I get up in the middle of the night, and I’m still 3/4 asleep. My mouth feels dry, and I walk over to the mouthwash to refresh. I reach for the bottle, but I grab the image in the mirror..."
Hope you enjoy this true story and the parable for living our spiritual lives and not just reach for the ego image in the mirror.
May you be sealed for another year in the book of life. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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March 7, 2013
Eyes Wide Open
This is an interesting video on Plato's Allegory of The Cave.
It is long-winded, but if you watch a little I think you will get the point.
In the video prisoners who are kept in the dark, chained, and with no real view of the outside world, have a limited perception of what exists out there.
They see shadows, but what is a shadow compared with the reality of true people, places, and things.
When one prisoner is released outside into the light and the wonders of the world, he sees and experiences the greatness, the complexity, and the beauty of it all.
The world, he sees, is much more than a shadow on a darkened wall.
Watching this video, I think how fortunate I am to be able to have an education (and I am actually in a class this week).
It is wonderful to learn and grow--and have one's eyes opened to all there is out there.
True, not all the topics that I encounter and learn about are of great interest to me (sometimes, like everyone, I feel like I just want to get some Zzzzzs), but just being exposed to different topics and ways of thinking is a great opportunity in and of itself.
I think sometimes, how lucky I am to live in the 21st century in an age of globalization, opportunities for advanced education, and all the technology to bridge time and space and see more than many who came before us.
I imagine that compared to G-d, we are like the prisoners in the cave who only experience and see a minutia of reality, and G-d is out there over us, omniscient.
Someday, G-d releases us from our mortal bodies and we ascend to heaven to partake of his greatness and then our eyes are truly opened as well. ;-)
Eyes Wide Open
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