It struck me, walking today, that a big part of the problem is that we are able only to see tiny fractions of the picture and that of course is why they don’t make sense. How can the mystic say that all is one? Or Julian of Norwich say that all is well, all manner of thing is well, when there is so much suffering and waste. Reality is like one of those newspaper photographs made up of thousands of tiny dots of various sizes. Under a magnifying glass all one can see are the various dots. Seen as a whole from a distance the dots form a picture. We live at the micro level and can only see our own particular piece of reality, a very tiny slice limited geographically, temporally and culturally. We cannot see the whole. All we can do is look at our particular bit. That is why many scientists and others get it so wrong. They do not understand the difference between seeing and looking. They are expert at looking and brilliant at analysing the individual bits, but they are not able to see the whole. We can intuit that there is a whole, though we do not understand it. Chaos theory can show that there is a connection between a butterfly alighting on a flower in England and a tornado in Kansas. Even more bizarre, quantum theory suggests there is a connection between the butterfly and the Orion Nebula. All is connected, but we cannot see how, nor can we understand. Even when we do have that overwhelming intuition that all is one, and when we feel oned with all that is, we do not understand the why, nor the how. We know only that that is how it is. And that is why the greed, the hatred and malevolence and the rejection of others by so many people is so painful. If only we could all realise what it means to be a person, how much we are each part of one other. If our relationships are not positive and nurturing they are destructive. There is no middle way. Indifference is a rejection, a denial of love.