6 What Is Sanity?
What is sanity? Not in the psychological sense, but in our day-to-day lives, where crazy has become the most popular adjective to describe events, comments, decisions, even fun experiences. What is sanity? Is it a standard of conduct? Is it common sense? Is it rational behavior?
Yes, and so much more. Sanity is an honest relationship with reality. Sanity is seeing clearly, free of our filters, judgments, biases. When we see what’s going on, then we can discern what actions might be useful. Sanity creates possibilities.
Sanity creates possibility because we see more clearly. We work with what’s here, not what we want or hope is here, but what is truly present. One of my spiritual teachers said repeatedly, “You must work with ...
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