The above photo can be found at the following link. http://www.nuribilgeceylan.com/earlyphotographs1.php?sid=1 How do we understand each other and the world we inhabit? It is like the story of Babel in the Old Testament. We are stuck in symbols systems created by long dead people. We are constricted in our communication with each other and within ourselves by a language that we are not terribly good at using to our best advantage even in the best and easiest of times. It is essential for all of us to share all kinds of important information between us. The better we can do that the better our lives become. That is a shared experiential reality. The problem is that we do not know how to translate our experiences or the other person's through our languages very well. We need to take the time to understand as completely as possible what the other person is trying to communicate. Our future actions are determined by our translation of what they are trying so hard to tell us. The more...
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