There is no ‘is’ world
Monday, March 30th, 2009To someone who cannot see, the sky isn’t blue. To someone who hasn’t opened the box, Schrödinger’s cat is still alive (maybe). To the men who called Galileo a fool, the earth was the centre of the universe, and the Sun revolved around the Earth.
Too often, we pigeon hole our thoughts by subjecting objects and people to ‘is’ sentences.
About mathematics:
Person #1: Mathematics is hard.
Person #2: Mathematics is easy.
According to wikipedia,
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere.
Mathematics is not hard, and it is not easy. But saying it is, makes it so for you.
So essentially, you can create how anything in the world occurs for you. You can create whether it is a lovely day. Or not. Whether a person is smart. Or not. Whether that person is making me angry. Or not.
What you say to yourself creates your world.
