May 10
The senses deceive, as a dream deceives: in a dream you take everything to be true and notice the error only on waking. Perhaps this waking, too, is a sleep from which a deeper awakening will one day rouse you.
Deliverance from Error (freely rendered)
Listening mode
The senses deceive, as a dream deceives: in a dream you take everything to be true and notice the error only on waking. Perhaps this waking, too, is a sleep from which a deeper awakening will one day rouse you.
Sometimes you correct a judgement you had taken for granted for years. About a person, say, who always struck you as cold, until you learn what they were dealing with at the time. The new view seems clearer. The only strange thing is that the old one never seemed unclear to you.
Certainty has no distinguishing mark. A correct judgement and a false one can feel the same from the inside: equally calm, equally unquestioned. You notice the difference only from a later standpoint, and that standpoint too, for as long as you occupy it, doesn't feel like one.
It doesn't follow that you must distrust everything. Someone who holds every judgement in suspension can hardly act any more, answer anyone or rely on anything. You have to live with what makes sense to you now. The difficulty lies elsewhere: the very convictions that least seem to you like convictions are the ones you examine least often.
When you meet this person today, you see someone who had more to cope with back then than could be seen. That, at any rate, is how it appears to you now, and just as clearly as the coldness once did.
