The Guiding Light of Reason
Funny how a thing isn’t a thing until it is a thing to the observer. If I don’t give it a name or make a mental connection with a thing, it may be there yet refrain from presenting itself to my faculties - to my focus. And, a thing holds no meaning unless it invokes fear, desire, or curiosity. Reason is a “thing” – or more precisely a no-thing – compartmentalized throughout the history of curiosity in the psychological realm. Reason is set as opposed to imagination – the fabulous, the fantastic. I can see a thing and imagine it to be what it is to me without obtaining a right view of it. But, if I want to have better control over that thing, I need to know what it is. How can I do that if I do not, at first, detach the inferences I am making of that thing? Reason is that attempt to set myself apart from a thing that has presented itself to me which I would like to better manipulate or understand. Reason is that necessary component of detecting how much of me I am