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The Sense of Warmth

by | Aug 21, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

When you touch something you are thrown back into yourself, but you are accompanied by something of the other – the warmth (or coolness) of the other. I experience myself through touch whether I am touching a rock, the bath water, a book, the keys on my...

The Sense of Vison

by | Aug 14, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

Dear Friend, The richness and complexity of the vision of vision in our souls is astounding and wonderful. I am writing this during the lunch break at a conference on The Search for Humanity in Contemporary Art, so I have a list of visual thoughts in my notebook...

The Sense of Taste

by | Aug 7, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

How does your soul savour life? Or what in your life does your soul savour? I love food.  It so delights my senses with smells, textures, flavors, colors, and shapes.  But now I am feeling seduced by my senses because inner maturity wakes me up to the...

The Sense of Balance

by | Jul 24, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

Balance lets us sway in many directions and never fall.   Through balance we maintain our uprightness.  No matter how much we sway in any direction we can return to our standpoint, head held high, ready to focus on what is important, find our center...

Sense of Self-Movement

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

It seems intelligent to give you the brief dictionary definition of the sense of self-movement. There are two words that relate to self-movement:Proprioception from Latin proprius, meaning “one’s own” and perception, is the sense of the relative...

The Sense of Well-Being

by | Jul 10, 2010 | Substack, Wisdom of Selfhood

Once we incarnate into our sense of touch, through which we experience the resistance of something else and the reality of our own boundary, and we find ourselves thrown back into our own center, we move to the perception of “the existence within” our skin. What...