I love the metaphor of the elephant and the blindfolded people (or blind men) who have never seen an elephant. This story originated in India over 2,000 years ago as a way to illustrate our human tendency to assume that our own subjective experience of a thing is all there is to it. In the spiritual realm, the elephant represents God or Ultimate Reality or Higher Consciousness (whatever you wish to call it) and the ways humans argue about what that is and how to describe it. Basically, there IS an Ultimate Reality, but no one has ever experienced the totality of it and therefore, can never describe it accurately. So… let’s stop arguing and actually listen to one another. Let’s give people space to experience what they need to experience to grow and develop their own Being.
Peace to all!
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
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