Comments on: Life Without Labels: How to Rediscover the World

By: Connecting with Your Sense of Awe

Connecting with Your Sense of Awe — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:07:54 +0000

[...] There’s a direct-connect between your spirituality and your sense of awe. [...]

By: Tanna Relacion

Tanna Relacion — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:57:02 +0000

Joshua Schmaltz

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prom gowns — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:52:50 +0000

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By: Peter Clemens

Peter Clemens — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:30:59 +0000

Hi Brad, The photo was taken by Hamed Saber. Here is the FlickR link.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:27:38 +0000

hi i was wondering where you got that beautiful photograph of the lady bug and who took it??

thanks you! awesome article!!!!!!

By: Why Going Out of Your Mind is Essential For Your Health | Illuminated Mind

Why Going Out of Your Mind is Essential For Your Health | Illuminated Mind — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:09:17 +0000

[...] has judgment in it, but like concepts, it is beyond them. Most importantly, reality is beyond labels. In order to be in relationship with reality, we need to stop and listen. We need to go out of our [...]

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:52:01 +0000

it is all so true

By: Vered

Vered — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:19:23 +0000

Arrived here thanks to Marelisa who linked to you.

Labels seem useful because they enable us to move on quickly, and we like to move on quickly, don’t we. Always busy, always in a hurry. You are absolutely right: it is amazing to watch a young child explore. They are never in a hurry, do not use labels, and see the world through very different eyes than we do.

Sigh.

I LOVE your idea. But can I really do this? Can I stop using labels and rediscover? That would require me to SLOW DOWN. I’m afraid I lost the ability to do that.

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Fri, 30 May 2008 22:24:34 +0000

[...] Over at “Pick the Brain”, Peter Clemens writes insightfully about the importance of reawakening wonder in our lives and seeing everything as a miracle in his post “Life Without Labels How to Rediscover the World”. [...]

By: sunfever

sunfever — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:58:00 +0000

This is something that’s been a recurring theme in my life for quite a while. The earliest version that I know of is Jesus saying “Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”. Closer to our times Pirsig in Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (to some extent) and in Lila (to a greater extent) talks about the need for “direct perception” … in not so many words. To see a thing directly without labels is to experience it in its fullness. I guess that’s where the kingdom of heaven really is: a perceptual flux where you are unburdened by the need for the lenses of culture & language!

Aternote: Another gem gleaned from Pirsig is Neil Bohr’s statement: “We are suspended in language!”