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Daily Question, May 11

What is revealed when I endeavor to see through the eyes of others?

  • reality

    Paradigm altering, or, at least experiential shifting perspective and vision 🙂 reality

  • Debra

    What is revealed … is that they are human too. That they have been hurt too, wounded, experience their own struggles. That they do not mean to hurt, but come from a place of fear and protectiveness, just as I do.

  • Malag

    How centered I am on self. I initially read the question from the perspective that those others’ eyes are looking at me and that that reveals something different about me. But if course this is a far broader question. Most others are bound up with their own selves. Everyone has their own journey with its joys and trials. We are all connected by what it is to be human. Our experience is ultimately no better, no worse: it is beyond judgement.

  • Angela

    When I truly see through the eyes of another, I experience a state of stillness within myself and I know the right words to say and the right actions needed to bring about solace, peace and joy for both myself and the other person with whom I have empathy.

  • Kamakshi

    Being empathetic, it helps see their pain. Wounded healers are those who understand the pain and help alleviate their misery

  • Christina

    I had that today: a friend tried to make me feel guilty for an “omission.” I didn’t accept blame for it. I’m glad I didn’t. However she is sorely challenged in ways I can’t imagine. It’s hard to be her, I think. I feel compassion, but by the same token I won’t be used by her anger.

  • Hot Sauce

    Empathy allows me to look at various perspectives and empathize with those whose perspectives differ from mine, so that I can take that lived experience of another, incorporate it into my values, and rethink the way I live based on that perspective. Even if I don’t agree, I can learn to empathize with a point of view that differs from mine. I begin to see ethical truths at a deeper level that are based on human experience.

  • Dominic

    That most people are doing the best they can with what is available.

  • Mark Piper

    My eyes are not the only eyes through which God gleans his grandeur; and not only that, my eyes are just one set, among billions. Other perspectives allow me to see things different, to understand where someone is coming from and thus to better refine my own words and actions.

    Walking in someone else’s shoes sure helps journey towards solidarity and understanding, but viewing the sights from another’s view opens different vistas of purpose, understanding, and most importantly wisdom.

  • Toni

    I see how the other thinks and feels and it allows me to sense the depth In loving awareness that may or may not warrant a response.

  • TeriB

    A different point of view. A struggle that is not my own. A perspective that I may not have noticed. A need different than my own. It makes me more compassionate, more grateful, more understanding and perhaps tolerable.

  • Melissa

    I drop my ego and open up to see and listen free of my own perceptions so I can really know and understand their wisdom and how the world is for them.

  • Peg

    I have learned that another person’s reality can be just as valid as my own and that I don’t have all the answers.

  • Chester

    The whole picture. The reality, or at least something closer to it.

  • Debra

    An endeavor to understand. If truly open, empathetic, compassionate and loving, an acceptance of our differences and uniqueness and oneness of spirit.

  • Ed Schulte
    Unless one does "Inner" clearing before "endeavouring to see through the eyes of others" what could be "revealed" many be nothing but distortions of ones own conditionings. Honest Introspection first before examining others, is what Joshua Emanuel taught this as does The I CHING . Cast Hexagram:61 - Sixty-One Chung Fu / Inner Truth The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward. By resolving inner...

    Unless one does “Inner” clearing before “endeavouring to see through the eyes of others” what could be “revealed” many be nothing but distortions of ones own conditionings. Honest Introspection first before examining others, is what Joshua Emanuel taught this as does The I CHING .

    Cast Hexagram:61 – Sixty-One
    Chung Fu / Inner Truth

    The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward.
    By resolving inner conflicts and being at peace with himself, he learns to gain insight into others.
    In effect, he enters another, sees with the other’s eyes, listens with the other’s ears, feels with the other’s heart.
    He then returns to his own center, with new perspective and understanding.

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  • slawrence

    That there are a multitude of stories and realities. That everyone has their own truth. You cannot know what informs my thoughts, and I cannot hope to understand what informs yours.

  • Pollyanna Gladwell
    The possibility that I just might be – gasp! – wrong! In jest I sometimes repeat the words I learned from my very humorous mother: “I have many faults, but being wrong isn’t one of them.”But in actual fact I am frequently wrong, because I can be attached to fixed and old ideas ingrained from a point of view from where my feet are planted on the earth. But because I can pivot 360° on my spot on the earth, I can consider multiple viewpoints and expand my horizons. Being w...

    The possibility that I just might be – gasp! – wrong!

    In jest I sometimes repeat the words I learned from my very humorous mother: “I have many faults, but being wrong isn’t one of them.”But in actual fact I am frequently wrong, because I can be attached to fixed and old ideas ingrained from a point of view from where my feet are planted on the earth. But because I can pivot 360° on my spot on the earth, I can consider multiple viewpoints and expand my horizons.

    Being wrong is liberating.

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  • pkr

    Compassion.

  • Michele

    Young children often reveals such honesty through their eyes. I have to admit, my first thought was ‘stupidity’ because I thought of a particular narcissist but then read through the comments and wanted to be more positive.

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