Zero to 1: The Relational Nature of Personal Reality
7 INSIGHTS
I.
Everything we know about the world, we know through experience.
II.
You might say we know science is real, certain facts are true, or that 1+1=2.
But how do you know?
You know because information comes into your consciousness and you experience it.
III.
Information is like water entering a vase; it takes the shape of the mind that contains it.
IV.
Our relationship with who and what we believe to be the nature of reality forms the shape of our mind.
V.
Our minds filter reality, so we don’t see the world as it is but as we are.
VI.
Our consciousness filters and interprets information and creates the very experience that our filters and interpretations produce.
In this way, our consciousness produces our personal reality.
VII.
Our personal reality is a reflection of who we are.
It’s like looking in the mirror, and it tells us more about the limitations of our mind than the nature of reality itself.
6 Quotes
I.
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
—Robertson Davies
II.
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
—Anaïs Nin
III.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
—Marcel Proust
IV.
"Reality is not what appears to you, but what you are to yourself."
—Nisargadatta Maharaj
V.
"The world is not independent of the observer, but arises in the very act of observation."
—Deepak Chopra
VI.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
—Rumi
1 Question
Can you know anything outside of consciousness?