Had a fabulous insight today, while in the shower, on what to do with the qp article.  (It’s amazing where your mind can go when your outside world is running on autopilot.)  Anyway, I’m going to pivot the article on the concept of inside/outside.  I haven’t told you that one yet?  Well let me correct that right now.

Can you remember when you learned the concept of Inside and Outside? Was it a teacher in school, a parent at home, the little kid next door? How old were you? The idea is so spinal now it’s probably too hard to remember.

{Teacher – pointing to a box}: “This space is called ‘inside’; and this space is called ‘outside’.”

However, simply knowing the words ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ and being able to point to them doesn’t qualify. That‘s just remembering an authority figure at some time or other relating two sides of a box to their human construction names.  Even knowing how to use the box on the floor doesn’t really convey the experience of inside and outside.

{Me}: “If I put the ball inside the box, it stays; put the ball outside the box, it rolls away.”

Although using the box goes beyond definitions by requiring an understanding of certain simple laws of physics, everything is still taking place, experientially speaking, out there. It is only by being the box that the knowing becomes real.  In fact, experiencing the difference between inside and outside is what being a box is all about.

{Box}: “…facing one direction is my inside; facing the other direction is my outside.”

At least that’s what a box would experience if it had conscious self-awareness like we do. That and precious little more, for that is all a box is, after all, a separator of inside and outside. Unfold it, and it is no longer even a box, but merely hard-to-dispose-of garbage.

Yes. We are more than a box.  But understanding who ‘I’ am starts with that simple understanding… ‘inside’ me and ‘outside’ me… just like the box.

peace…….ag