The Relational Perspective

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Rather than becoming attached to a specific way of doing things, see it for what it is, a perspective in a subjective reality. When you study different perspectives, you are collecting lenses for your camera. You expand your mind beyond one limiting worldview.

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What We See and What We Know

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Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

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Due to the limitation of concepts, deeper understanding comes from holding multiple perspectives simultaneously, recognizing their utility and their limitations, and also being willing to let all of them go. It’s about developing a fluid way of seeing that can shift between unity and multiplicity, between being and non-being, dwelling on neither.

Roy Klein • Basic Introduction to Nondualism

Relationalism is a middle way between hyper-individualism and collectivism. The former detaches the person from all deep connection. The latter obliterates the person within the group, and sees groups as faceless herds. The relationalist sees each person as a node in a thick and enchanted web of warm commitments. She seeks to build a neighborhood,

David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto

Relationalism asserts that human beings are both fundamentally broken but also splendidly endowed. We have egoistic self-interested desires, and we need those desires in order to accomplish some of the necessary tasks of life: to build an identity, to make a mark on the world, to break away from parents, to compete, create and to shine. Our savage