One Apple A Day #377
There are things in life that can be learned only through experience.
Things that transcend our intellectual ability to understand.
Things you can’t just know, but you have to feel.
I was talking with a friend about one of those things; consciousness.
But it would work for other topics such as awareness, maturity, spirituality, love, values and others.
The question was “How do we start a conversation about consciousness?”
Because anytime we start a conversation on consciousness we engage at an intellectual level. And it doesn’t work.
Consciousness is not something you understand at the mind level. It’s something you feel. Something you know without knowing.
So, the only answer possible is that we don’t.
We don’t start a conversation on consciousness.
But we bring our consciousness into the conversation.
The more we can embody consciousness — or love, awareness, maturity, spirituality — when we have a conversation, the more that conversation becomes an experience for the others.
This way is not an intellectual discussion.
It is experiential, and it engages the peoples involved at all levels.
To achieve this, our conversations must be informed by our own practice.
Because it’s in the practice that these values realise their power.
You may understand love, but it’s only in the experience of love that it is fulfilled.