Reality Check (Part 2): The Spectrum of Life | Jake Haber

For the second part of "Reality Check", we recognized that life is not so black and white, but is actually a spectrum of nuance and complexity. This affects our faith, our connection to one another, and our understanding of the world at large! 

 

Quotes:

 

Lao Tzu:

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. The wise man sees all in the spectrum, not in black and white.”

 

Ed Yong: 

“There is a wonderful word for this sensory bubble—Umwelt… Umwelt comes from the German word for“environment”…an Umwelt is specifically the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience—its perceptual world…a multitude of creatures could be standing in the same physical space and have completely different Umwelten….” 

“It tells us that all is not as it seems and that everything we experience is but a filtered version of everything that we could experience.”

 

Eckhart Tolle:

"The whole is made up of both the dark and the light.”

 

Samsara (Film): https://www.barakasamsara.com/