Reflection is waiting to see what occurs to us in the presence of openness to perception. What makes us think that the way we think is the way to think? That the way we see is the way to see? That the way we live is the way to live? That the way we perceive things is the way to perceive things? How might we think/see/live/perceive/etc. instead? What makes us think that the way we see things is the way things are? Sit with the questions and wait for what occurs to you. We aren't looking for answers to the questions, but for perception shifts that lead to new realizations that put the questions in a different perspective. Looking at/examining what we think, how we think, transforms the way we think. Changing the way we think/perceive changes the way we live. Education is not being told what/how to see/think, but being asked what/how we see/think, and what makes us think that is the way to see/think. Curiosity and exploration/examination produce the kind of reflection that leads to new ways of perceiving, responding to, living in the world of "normal, apparent, reality." And that is what new realizations do for us. How long since we had one?
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