Wholesight

Many of us live one - eyed lives. We rely largely on the eye of the mind to form our image of reality. But today more and more of us are opening the other eye, the eye of the heart, looking for realities to which the mind's eye is blind. Either eye alone is not enough. We need "wholesight", a vision of the world in which mind and heart unite "as my two eyes make one in sight." Our seeing shapes our being. Only as we see whole can we and our world be whole.

With the mind's eye we see a world of fact and reason. It is a cold and mechanical place, but we have built our lives there because it seemed predictable and safe. Today, in the age of nuclear science, our mind - made world has been found flawed and dangerous, even lethal.
So we open the eye of the heart and see another sight: a world warmed and transformed by the power of love, a vision of community beyond the mind's capacity to see. We cannot forsake our hearts and yet we cannot abandon our minds. How shall we bring together these two lines of sight? How shall we use both eyes to create not a blurry double image but one world, in all its dimensions, healed and made whole?

— Parker Palmer, Education as a Spiritual Journey