No matter how beautiful and brilliant, bodies and minds fade, but consciousness – the unique vantage point from which we experience life – arguably the most beautiful and brilliant aspect of each of us – never does. While everything you witness changes all the time, your consciousness or awareness of it remains constant.
Imagine what life might be like if our unique, steadfast vantage points were what defined us socially – rather than our constantly-changing appearance, aptitude, belongings, and circumstances. Every vantage point simply constitutes one of our collective view; no one is more valuable than another.
It’s like the parable of the eight blind monks trying to describe an elephant by touching different parts of it: it doesn’t matter what the monks are wearing, how big or strong they are, what ethnicity they are – their contributions are their individual perceptions of the elephant. If we weigh each monk’s perceptions equally, in aggregate, we’ll get a pretty good idea of what the whole elephant looks like.
