"How will we say what this day means to us unless we enter it fully,
consciously, and aware? How will we save what we love unless we are
willing to be with our loved ones, to share their journeys and longings,
their gifts and blessings? How will we come to know our world unless we
go to it, our hearts open, ready always to receive and then to give
back?
There are few things more important than to find a way to stop what we’re doing and look,
look deeply, lovingly, fearlessly, unselfishly, without being anxious
about what it might mean, how it might change us – and then to enter in."
This is the primordial sense of "transparency": transparency, authenticity, openess towards oneself and the organic world around one (including the close circle of loved ones). If this primordial level of transparency is not attained, forget the rest: an inauthentic wo/man's judgement runs false at its source, the self..
The existentialist philosophers of the last century understood this. They realized that one of the essential challenges of our time was to achieve the clarity of "authenticity":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticity_%28philosophy%29
This is the primordial sense of "transparency": transparency, authenticity, openess towards oneself and the organic world around one (including the close circle of loved ones). If this primordial level of transparency is not attained, forget the rest: an inauthentic wo/man's judgement runs false at its source, the self..
The existentialist philosophers of the last century understood this. They realized that one of the essential challenges of our time was to achieve the clarity of "authenticity":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticity_%28philosophy%29
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