What is Your Definition of Reality?

 

Question:     What is your definition of reality?

 

Answer:       I have been thinking this one over for forty years now and I can only share some ideas with you.

 

One of the biggest concerns we all have with this question is that there is one’s subjective reality and then there is the ultimate reality. The subjective reality is the only one that you are likely to know. It is your view of the universe and the people around you. Every thought that comes into your mind changes your view of the universe. When you were a child someone may have told you that God had long white hair and that he punished bad people and did good things for good people. Perhaps that was your view of God. As you grew older, people started introducing other ideas of what He is and how He relates to us. So your view of God changes and becomes more sophisticated. God didn’t change any of this time, it was you; and our view of all reality is the same way. Reality is reality, but our comprehension of it continually changes. The world didn’t change between the time we thought it was flat and then thought it to be round. The Brotherhoods’ main function is to perceive the ultimate reality and to pass along that information to people so that their responses to events are proper responses rather than self-defeating ones. Our religious and scientific institutions have painted a certain picture of what their views of reality are, and these institutions account for our prejudices. (04-1973)

 

 

 

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