Daily Meditation: Saturday, June 23, 2001

Imagine a man inside a sphere, another, outside. The one …

06/23/2001

Imagine a man inside a sphere, another, outside. The one inside, of course, sees it as concave and the one outside, as convex. Both men discuss and squabble; it is impossible to have them agree.
Now let us interpret. The one who is inside the sphere is the heart: he observes life from inside - subjectively - that is with emotion, feeling, and sensation. The one who is outside is the intellect that observes things from outside - objectively, rationally. This is why discussions and confrontations have gone on for centuries between the heart and the intellect, between religion and science. Which is right? Both of them, but only 50% each. That is why a third observer comes along and says: 'The sphere is both concave and convex,' then of course the other two get angry and consider him insane. In reality, the latter is a wise man who contemplates truth in its entirety. This sage is our intuition, which has the capacity of bringing together thought and feeling to see things simultaneously from outside and from inside... Yes, to know the true reality of things, one must be both subjective and objective, standing both inside and outside.