July 29, 2025

A statement floating around my corner of the internet is this:
"Words are projections." That's a stunning jolt to all of our worlds. I believe it to be so because how can we get outside of our experience in order to evaluate our experience and validate what we presume to be so? Thus, what we think is so, and say is so, and treat as being so, is only what we think is so.

For me, this beautifully shifts everything in my world exquisitely into place.

It all is how we think it is. Is how we take it to be. How we think things are may as well be how they are for all the good knowing that it is only how we take things to be does. We treat things the we way we take them to be, and they may as well be that way for all the difference it makes knowing that they may "actually" be some other way entirely. 

So what if they are? If we treat them as though they are not, they may as well not be what they are not. And, I say that we all go right on living in the world as we take it to be. Any errors we make in so doing will surely catch up with us eventually, forcing us to make some adjustments in the way we see things. Until then, "Keep her steady as she goes!"