Living

Everyday Sensory Intelligence

Proprioception is a hidden sense. Through the proprioceptive sense we know where we are, (location), how much tension, pressure, and effort we are exerting, (tone), how we are moving, (coordination), how we are feeling, (emotion), and who we sense we are, (identity). As our proprioception deepens, we begin to wake up, and to become lively.

Intelligently sensing ourselves in relation to the environment helps us to know how we are doing, what we are doing, as we are doing it.

Sensory consciousness is like a window which, when opened, allows us to see clearly in two directions at once; in, toward ourselves, and out, toward the world.

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I desire for myself and all who live, an ever greater spiritualization and multiplication of the senses...The spirit is as much at home in the senses as the senses are at home in the spirit: and whatever takes place in the spirit must enkindle a subtle, extraordinary play in the senses. And also the other way around.
– Friedrich Nietzsche / Philosopher

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A Sense of Time

We refer to ourselves as human beings, not as human doings: simply sitting, reclining, sensing... simply standing, walking, seeing, thinking... pausing, listening, breathing, resting... being in time, including time, living in time, sensing time.

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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel / Rabbi

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