A World Made of Sentences

We can talk and talk, and for that we use sentences. We order words and do hope the one opposite us, listening to us can understand us.

We try to bring our knowledge into the open, and try to convey others of thoughts. All of our knowledge about anything we try to construct in any language known to us and can only be found in sentences.

Without language there is no knowledge (at least of the common type) about anything. {A World Made of Sentences, Part I: Sentences and the Perception or Reality}

We have our feelings when we see things. Those feelings we like to express and therefore we use our body language and the spoken language. It is just not for nothing, but has often a serious meaning for us to be able to express ourselves.

We should realize

Language does not act like a mirror, reflecting to us a perfect depiction of reality, it acts like a filter, it makes us see reality in particular ways. The way language is constructed and the popular usage of language at any given time in history and in any given culture on earth will create a different perception of what is real. {A World Made of Sentences, Part I: Sentences and the Perception or Reality}

Jeff Carreira does not see reality as it is. He writes

I see reality as an American male at the beginning of the 21^st century sees it. Some of what I am seeing may be objectively accurate, much of it may not be. And I think it is very, very important to know the difference. That is why the contemplation of the relationship between our perception of reality and language is so important. If knowing what is real is important to us then we have to deconstructed how our current perception is being shaped by the sentences in our heads. {A World Made of Sentences, Part I: Sentences and the Perception or Reality}

We are often confronted with the problem that we are not good enough in expressing ourselves with words, placing one letter after the other in a certain order.

many of us who have tried to share our mystical revelations with others have found the language we commonly use woefully inadequate for the job. Many, many people have ventured out into the further reaches of human experience only to find fewer and fewer people that they can share that experience with. The language we have is just not adequate to allow us to share the mystery that has grabbed a hold of our hearts. {The Language of We-Mysticism}

How often do we not find that the language we are used to is too specific, too rigid and to literal and when we try to express ourselves with it the listener sometimes may understand it differently than we wanted it to come over. We have grown up with one or an other language and got it rooted in our current level of thinking. Constantly it is being fed and continually words come and go, some even changing of meaning (by time).

So many of us would love that our feelings are expressed so clearly that nobody can misunderstand them.

Our goal is not to speak about our experience, but to give our experience a voice. We are not looking at our experience and describing it. We are allowing that experience to take us over and speak through us so that even we are amazed at what comes out of our mouths. When this direct communication happens in more than one person simultaneously a spontaneous process of divine discourse unfolds. The higher mind … now has control of the conversation. It is thinking out loud though the voices of the individuals. It is spiritual improvisation of the highest order.   {The Language of We-Mysticism}

Please do come to find out how Jeff Carreira looks at language and thinks

Our language conditions our perception. It shapes the way we see things.

… Language chops reality into distinct pieces and creates distinctions. The distinctions that exist in any given language are those that are important for the people using that language. Our languages have evolved to organize and optimize human perception and human behavior. If circumstances change, or if you change your circumstances, the language you had before may no longer be optimal. In fact, your old language may have become a detriment. {A World Made of Sentences, Part I: Sentences and the Perception or Reality}

When we begin to suspect how much language might be influencing our perception of reality our fundamental conception of what is real and true starts to unravel. Have we been wrong to assume that language is an accurate reflection of reality? Is there even a ‘reality’ out there to be reflected back to us in the first place? In our journey toward deeper truth even these assumptions must be dragged into the illuminating light of inquiry.{A World of Sentences, Part 2: Language and the Reality of Reality}

Continue reading:

• The Language of We-Mysticism
• A World Made of Sentences, Part I: Sentences and the Perception or Reality
• A World of Sentences, Part 2: Language and the Reality of Reality

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Further reading

1. Let’s talk about language (and this bird)
2. Language, Learning and Logic
3. Language Matters: Communication at The Heart of Successful Collaboration
4. An emic exploration to language barriers
5. Economy of language, Eros, meaning, the public, and its problems
6. Pay attention to actions…
7. What’s your voice vibes?
8. Turn to the Webster’s
9. Some skepticism
10. #36alive 194: 5 Reasons To Learn A New Language Today!
11. Words
12. What is disrationalia?
13. Descriptivists vs. Prescriptivists
14. English Grammar in Ruins
15. British schools: kids, commas, and tests
16. Queers, language and the nature of reality
17. Japanese Notes – how to express a position in Japanese?
18. Paying attention…are you?
19. A Baptist Shouts “Learn the Language”
20. Body language
21. It’s Not What You Say That Counts; It’s What You Don’t Say
22. Seven Tricks For Reading Body Language Like A Pro
23. Body Language of Modi and Trump
24. The Handshake Analyzed ‘Round The World
25. Body language expert analyzes G-20 world leaders
26. Putin Exposed the Plot to Destroy America and Pedophilia & What Body Language Reveals [videos] ~ July 9, 2017
27. World Leaders May Lie, but Their Body Language Tells All

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