Beyond Edifice
Seeing one’s self in another requires empathy and compassion. A person must be willing to look beyond their immediate self and feel what is not readily perceptible. Difference is merely an edifice constructed by our faith in perception. By transfiguring what is familiar an alternative now is made av...
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ndltd-vcu.edu-oai-scholarscompass.vcu.edu-etd-27722017-03-17T08:32:14Z Beyond Edifice Mendak, Keith Seeing one’s self in another requires empathy and compassion. A person must be willing to look beyond their immediate self and feel what is not readily perceptible. Difference is merely an edifice constructed by our faith in perception. By transfiguring what is familiar an alternative now is made available to the mind and reveals an underlying essence common in all people and things. We realize physical separation is an illusion of the material world and that everything exists from one sacred source. 2009-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1773 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2772&context=etd © The Author Theses and Dissertations VCU Scholars Compass Artist Glass Arts and Humanities Fine Arts |
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Seeing one’s self in another requires empathy and compassion. A person must be willing to look beyond their immediate self and feel what is not readily perceptible. Difference is merely an edifice constructed by our faith in perception. By transfiguring what is familiar an alternative now is made available to the mind and reveals an underlying essence common in all people and things. We realize physical separation is an illusion of the material world and that everything exists from one sacred source. |
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