Change the Eyes

From the Neuzeit Tarot, the Tower; from Rory's Story Cubes, Elephant:

Alan Watts once stated that reality was just a Rorschach ink-blot - we make sense of it based on what we've experienced and learned. Yet sometimes we create a protective delusion built with the bricks of a concept or dogma that we think we'll shield us from any ill wind that blows. It might be based on religion, politics, education, money or a health regime, but at some point reality will rip it apart, leaving us with a hard landing. Elephants move at a mindful pace, nurture relationships, and exercise compassion and empathy. Their strength and resilience comes from these relational traits, not self-centered interests. With their example, perhaps we should take the advice of Nikos Kazantzakis: "Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."