We can understand only
what we love. Joe was a little surprised
to hear that. “I thought you were a
purely rational person,” he said staring into my eyes, “someone who looks at
everything from a logical or scientific point of view.”
“Yes, Joe,” I said,
“Reason and science. Do we have any
better tools for understanding our world and its realities?”
Joe was obviously
confused. Where do I put love then? We can
only understand what we love.
I need science and reason
to understand the physical realities around me.
The origin of the world, the shimmer of the stars out there, and life
wiggling out of rotting filth – how do I understand these mysteries without
science?
Yet, without love, all my
understanding remains distant. How do I
understand you, Joe, unless I love your crankiness? I cannot understand you if I don’t go beyond
what science and reason tell me about you.
You are not just a bundle of chromosomes. You are not just a parcel of cells and
atoms. You are not a sum of your
parts.
It is something that lies
beyond the atoms of science that forges the bonds of understanding. It is in that forge that your agonies merge
into the marrow of my bones. The dance
in your eyes renders grace to my existence.
Have you ever thought of a
world where such understanding is as common as the air we breathe? That’s just a dream.
That is a beautiful post Sir..
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