Peering at Life through a Keyhole

by Brian Thompson

We perceive life no differently than if we were looking through a keyhole—our point of view is narrow and limited.

Anything we perceive through this tiny little window is incomplete; it’s a mere fraction of the whole that surrounds it.

Whenever we form a belief, or place a judgement, or make a choice that’s based entirely on something we’ve perceived through our tiny little personal keyhole, then no matter what the nature of our actions might be, they are done in ignorance. We are ignorant of the unseen environment that surrounds our narrow perspective (the entire universe), and we are ignorant of the critical affect that subjectivity plays in the apperception of what is perceived.

For the most part, people are ignorant of the corrupting role their subjectivity imparts on their present-moment cognition.

They remain unaware of the duality they conceptually impose onto everything they perceive. They are unconscious to the truth of their being and how their ignorance of it impacts their every perception.

As long as we remain asleep and unaware of our own consciousness, then whatever false ideas we have of ourselves will continue to be falsely projected onto our perception of reality. The world becomes a reflection of whatever resides within our minds—and so, ignorance can only reflect ignorance.

Most people tend to believe that their personal view is the only view, and that anything outside of their little peephole is completely irrelevant to them. “Why should I be bothered by that which doesn’t directly affect me?” the unconscious repeatedly say to themselves.

Those who are falsely self-centered dwell inside a lonely little world that they alone have created, where only they are able to reside. They allow the limiting light from their little keyhole to dominate not only themselves, but whoever might appear to stand in its way. They build walls around their delusion as if it were an entire kingdom, defending its non-existent manifestation with every effort of their being.

This is the duality that divides us—the belief that your little sliver of reality is somehow more important than mine, and that your discernments are the undeniable and unshakeable truth to which all others should kneel before and bow.

But whenever you are convinced that you are absolutely right, then you are entirely wrong.

There are no absolutes, other than the unbound Universal Consciousness that is the undying essence of all That Is and all That Is Not. There is only one Absolute, and that is the undivided Reality itself.

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