Life ~ Art ~ Why
Sentience ~ Joy ~ Reciprocity ~ Beauty
They are big words, and that is partly why. They are words that I learned were conneted by my work "the hidden world of the nearby." They are so close to us we don‘t realize they are there.
I learned long ago in a physics class of all places, that hidden in the simplest idea there may be the most profound principles of science. Albert Einsten figured out relativity by asking such a simple question: what does it mean for two things to happen at the same time when they are moving fast. And after much (very much) hard thing came the theory of relativity and one of the two most incredible series of scientific discovery of all time. (The other was Issac Newton, but that is a story for another time.)
Reciprocity. How often have you said it. How often the word scentiance. They are both keys to the greatest miracles in the universe. But we rarely hear them.
This web site started as inanothersshoes.com.
Reciprocity is to put yourself in another’s shoes. One of the easiest and hardest things in the world to do, especially when you hate the other person.
There is much about humans we are never taught and it stops us from experiencing joy, the most important feeling in life.
The second word, sentience means to experience and without minds that can experience, joy would not exist. Experiencing joy. Have you ever heard a politician or presidential candidate say it. Have you heard anyone say it that you can remenber. Let’s mull over experience first and then go back to reciprocity.