A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2024/08/righteous-efforts-by-inspired-souls-do.html

What is really going on? What are we to make of all the different takes on any one thing? No matter what the subject matter may be... there are differences of opinion. Two people can be looking at the same event, and it will have a different meaning for them. Add another person and still another interpretation appears.

There is a Japanese story called Rashōmon that explores this conundrum... dichotomy... paradox; whatever you want to call it. It all comes out of the force of appearances, and our varying degrees of awareness, which has much to do with how we read a situation. A man who wants nothing from The World will see externals... in a very different manner... than does one who wants many things from The World. Desire is a veil that filters what we see, and alters perception.

Romance follows the same principles. Friends might wonder what does she/he see in her/him? It's said love is blind. I doubt that is true of Love, but I am certain it applies to the lover. We project ourselves upon the objects of desire. We read what we want into them, even though it might not be present. Well, I can tell you with Certitude that it is not present there, but no one who thinks themselves in love is likely to listen to anyone who tells them different than what their own hearts are so emphatic about.