Tagged: perspective

The Lesser of Two Evils

How often do we tell ourselves we are choosing the lesser of two evils only as an excuse for choosing evil? For the lesser of two evils is nevertheless, by definition, an evil. Are we sure we have exhausted all possibilities in the situation and finally arrived at no available courses of action whatsoever beyond these proverbial “two evils”? Or have we rather...

The Smallness of Clouds

When the world is what we see.– Clouds dominate our horizon, block our view, obscure the light, and cast doubt on all our plans. In truth, however, the sky is immeasurably wider than the clouds — the clouds merely appear vast because they are so much closer to us than the sky. All one needs to correct this problem of perspective is to...