…which we miss when we rush, multi-task, fall into stress, panic, and anxiety, get defensive, or when we are steeped in the commotion of an emotion.
When these happen, it’s difficult to understand that there is nuance, or that there is any other truth than we know to exist.
When we miss the nuances, we can misread the situation and alter the positive potentialities in the experience. Likely, we see what we thought we would see, confirming our current belief system, because we see what we believe, what we expect, or what we desperately hope against… so we miss the nuance, which could have been game changing.
If we could slow down and take in the subtleties and detach ourselves from being right, or from the familiar, we might see that something else is happening altogether, right in front of us.