The only thing we truly KNOW is what we experience.
For example, the way I see the colour blue, isn't necessarily the way you see the colour blue. I don't know how you see the colour blue, and you don't know how I see the colour blue. The only thing I truly KNOW is how I see the colour blue, and the only thing you truly know is how you see the colour blue.
Perhaps there are infinite ways to see the colour blue - you may see it one way, I may see it another way, someone else may see it another way etc. Someone else may even see the colour white instead of the colour blue [1]. The only thing I truly KNOW is what I see and experience, and the only thing you truly KNOW is what you see and experience.
We can't make the assumption that we all experience things the same way. We tend to assume that we do, but we don't actually know.
The only thing we truly KNOW is what we experience personally, and what we experience personally is our reality. Since we may be experiencing things differently, we may be living in different realities.
When we connect in mutual bestowal (changing from benefiting ourselves to benefiting others), we'll become united as one. Then, perhaps I'll experience your colour blue and you'll experience my colour blue. While we're immersed in selfishness, disconnected from others, we only experience our own individual sensation of the colour blue. When we all connect in mutual bestowal, perhaps we'll experience the infinite sensation of the colour blue (when all our sensations of the colour blue unite as one). Perhaps. I don't know.
In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
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References:
- Is this dress white and gold or blue and black? www.bbc.com/news. Feb 27, 2015. Retrieved Feb 28, 2015.
