{"id":3263,"date":"2025-09-04T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:21:50","slug":"chapter-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Chapter Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From where we really are outside all this, The most we can ever catch is a restricted Glimpse through the keyholes of our mind and senses into a stranger&#8217;s house. There are beautiful things there: Object d&#8217;art in profusion, sculptures and paintings, Furniture, carpets, and such a super abundance of books we shall never read.But, more than all these, there are space and light: the slanting fall of the sun through our field of vision shadows hanging in air,<br>Body them out for us making them almost, almost<br>Tangible to the eye the most trivial fragments of what we discern excite us\u2026 a patch of wall<br>Yellowing up in the corner, a square chopped edge to a picture frame. In this in the concrete perception unique to us and the moment lies the essential<br>Kernel of truth: the very existence of objects is possible only to now. In a present alone Can anything be, and all our possible knowledge is rooted in this;reflection, inference, reason<br>Can only unpack what is here, they cannot add to .<br>Beyond through a door<br>On the other side of the room, then along the corridor<br>Pebbles of birdsong, smooth, round, glinting but clipped<br>Drop through a window. From where we find ourselves standing<br>We see where they come from ..hint of a garden outside<br>Whose outlines are unrelated; sky, the flick of of a green horizon,<br>Blue lights up the trees, leaves overhead,<br>Suggestions of limited space out of sight all around,<br>A tiny corner of everywhere. Listen to Mason you lie of movement and vice creates a sense of their absence<br>Within the house they are missed the dimension of time you line log surface one stop generations, we know,<br>Were born, live their lives, enjoyed here. Where did they go? But perhaps it was not their home. Perhaps they discovered, like us, they did not belong here,<br>And so, like us, discover themselves in the end<br>Outside the only house then you our essential conditions homelessness. Recognition recognition of this precedes all understanding of what we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From where we really are outside all this, The most we can ever catch is a restricted Glimpse&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflexions.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}