Life & Sensitivity

Sensitivity is fineness of feeling, and it is a wonderful thing. Problems arise when we have opinions about what we feel. Those opinions disconnect us from reality and plunge us into a fantasy world of duality: a self-contained and terrible distortion of reality. We should dwell in the world rather than in our sensing of the world, and the only way to do this is by yielding to reality, which means letting it fill us to overflowing – yield to our passions – and spewing it forth – as a tree yields fruit – simultaneously and together. My being alive is then a process of transforming the world around me. This is as good a definition of life as I can muster.