There is a drive in us as humans to shape reality to our individual understanding.  The boundaries of that understanding are the limits set by our perceptions and our ability to put them together in a holistic fashion.   

  

We peer out of that understanding at creation.  Our view is limited by the size and shape of our window of understanding.    

  

Of course some of us have larger windows, and some of us have smaller windows.  But we all constantly strive to either widen our view or stuff reality into the infinitesimal box of our understanding, our comfort zone.  

     

That is the choice: strive to expand our view and acknowledge that others have their own views and that we WILL welcome and learn from there viewpoint; or, turn inward to try to save our ridged concept of reality, defend our viewpoint, the view through our window, by rejecting the possibilities presented by others.    

   

The positive extreme is to seek our creator in an ever expanding consciousness and thrilling amazement as we join our view with our treasured fellow journey mates’ views to better accommodate the many (nay, infinite) facets of our creators handiwork.    

    

The negative extreme is to shut others out, or worse, make others into objects, set pieces on the stage of our own limited understanding.    

    

Each of us must decide for ourselves.  Very seldom do any of us get very far in one lifetime, but every so often in human history there are success stories.  Mother Teresa is a shining example.  Hitler is a dark example.    

    

Hitler was uncommonly and increasingly successful at shaping the reality around him to his understanding, much to the horror of the world.  In a different time and place, he would have been no more successful than any of the multitude of latent Hitlers embedded in any population.   But the garden was fertile, and he was the seed.    

   

We each must choose our direction: expand towards infinity, or collapse into inner darkness.    

     

If we are of the light, we must identify the dark windows and avoid becoming its “It” on its dark stage of “reality”.