Hitori Togusa It's in the learning of who you are in the absence of everyone else. The philosophy goes that the self can become better realized without the viewpoints of everyone else. Hitori Togusa The ways that society and culture shape your world view and shape the world's view of you, it can get very overwhelming, and it's easy to get caught up in the information around you, instead of getting to know the self. Things get simpler when you're narrowing your perspective. Hitori Togusa Which is all great and wonderful on paper. Paints a pretty picture of sitting underneath the lotus tree. Hitori Togusa But the absence of other people also lets you fall into self-delusion if you are in isolation too long. It takes a strong spirit to be able to hold the mirror up to themselves and see something accurate. The theory is that with the absence of others, the picture is more accurate. I think those thinkers are cutting short the viewpoints of others. There is value in what others see, there is self-knowledge to be learned in how you interact with other people. Hitori Togusa Now, I'm definitely NOT saying that someone else's perspective is necessarily a true one. But to not take into account another source of potentially valuable information? To cut yourself off and not even let it in? That's the mistake that leads to self-delusion.
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Hitori Togusa The ways that society and culture shape your world view and shape the world's view of you, it can get very overwhelming, and it's easy to get caught up in the information around you, instead of getting to know the self. Things get simpler when you're narrowing your perspective.
Hitori Togusa Which is all great and wonderful on paper. Paints a pretty picture of sitting underneath the lotus tree.
Hitori Togusa But the absence of other people also lets you fall into self-delusion if you are in isolation too long. It takes a strong spirit to be able to hold the mirror up to themselves and see something accurate. The theory is that with the absence of others, the picture is more accurate. I think those thinkers are cutting short the viewpoints of others. There is value in what others see, there is self-knowledge to be learned in how you interact with other people.
Hitori Togusa Now, I'm definitely NOT saying that someone else's perspective is necessarily a true one. But to not take into account another source of potentially valuable information? To cut yourself off and not even let it in? That's the mistake that leads to self-delusion.