The Mirror
What if I placed a mirror in front of you and simply asked:
Can you see?
Not:
Can you see what I see?
Not:
Can you see what I want you to see?
And certainly not:
This is what you should see.
Because the moment I tell you what you should see, I have interfered with the very observation I am asking you to make.
A mirror does not provide conclusions.
It does not tell you how to interpret the reflection.
It simply gives you an opportunity to look.
And perhaps that is what much of my work has been attempting to do.
When I ask questions about honesty, assumptions, differences, expectations, morality, balance, or the things we have come to accept as normal, I am not presenting myself as the person who possesses the answer for you.
I am placing the subject before us.
The reflection belongs to you.
You may see what I see.
You may see something entirely different.
You may see something neither of us had considered before.
That is the point.
Because if seeing things from a different perspective only means exchanging one person’s conclusions for another person’s conclusions, have we really learned to see differently?
Perhaps the purpose of the mirror was never to tell us what to see.
Perhaps it was simply to give us the opportunity to look for ourselves.
One Light Amongst Many
Seeing things from a different perspective.
