Detaching from the details of “the illusion.”
Attaining the vantage point of the witness.
| p322 | The perspective of the witness does not allow for self-recrimination, or for regret. For circumstances were as they were for good reason. You set about to illustrate for yourself an unforgettable story. And the poignancy of that experience would not have been possible if you had simply sampled the concepts in theory alone. You can empathize with the vicarious pain and traumas of another being, but you cannot truly walk in anyone else’s shoes but your own. You could not have hoped to attain the perspective of true knowingness, had you not supplied the vivid details of true-life experience yourself. |