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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: The Art of Observation: Heightening our Awareness and Learning Life Lessons from the World Around Us
Description: What do you see when you look around you? Do we all see the same thing? Ostensibly it would seem that all healthy eyes observe the same empirical reality. The fact is, however, that what you see is not (usually) what you get. Observation is not just what is visible to the naked eye, but far more than that.Â
Despite knowing that fact, here is a mysterious paradox: We all understand that there is more to everything we see than meets the eye. And yet, we are easily seduced by externals, to the point t...