How we perceive still may be different from another person's perception. Universal understanding with the same perception is not a given. Reality is not stable. It changes with new experiences. With new experiences we learn something that changes our beliefs, our reality.
Experiences provide the meaning of language.
We begin to find the awareness that language does not hold a shared, consistent meaning for everyone. As we share with others, they are welcome to participate in sharing, just absorbing or even disregarding the subject at hand. This is our privilege, too, when they are sharing, as long as we give it enough attention to understand for ourselves what is being shared. Reproduced with kind permission from Yoga Online , the Online Yoga Magazine. All rights reserved.