Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Author's Preface 11
Introduction: Living Through The Senses 13
Part 1 Developing a Dynamic Way of Seeing
Chapter 1 More to Seeing Than Meets the Eye 21
I can see a holly tree 21
The mind's 'best guess' 24
Seeing our mind in action 29
Our divided brain 32
A hall of mirrors 37
Sensing life 39
Chapter 2 Rediscovering Our Own Experience 42
First light 42
From thought to awareness 44
Eating breakfast 48
Attentive noticing 51
Focusing attention on our senses 55
Chapter 3 Imagination - A Mirror for Life 62
Skydiving in my mind 62
New ways of using our imagination 63
Animating our experience 67
Seeing colour - Goethe and Newton 69
Light and dark 72
The same but different 74
Chapter 4 Understanding Wholeness 79
Photographing life in Hong Kong 79
Opening our attention 81
Experiencing wholeness 87
A hologram of Princess Leia 90
Counterfeit stock cubes 93
Part 2 Giving Life Our Full Attention
Chapter 5 A Fresh Approach to Life 99
Feeling wonder 99
Seeing with fresh new eyes 101
Living context 105
Love and knowledge 107
Chapter 6 Seeing Inside Ourselves 113
Life crisis in Hong Kong 113
The power of vulnerability 117
Unconditional acceptance 119
Being fully alive 122
Chapter 7 The Ways in Which We Relate 126
Suspending judgments 126
A living inquiry 130
More to hearing than meets the ear 133
Restorative justice 137
Chapter 8 A Dynamic Way of Seeing At Work 142
Re-imagining economics: Manfred Max-Neef and Human Scale Development 152
Reviving education: 'Learning in Depth' 152
Re-visioning science: The Nature Institute 159
Re-designing business: The Hiut Denim company 166
Conclusion: From Surviving to Thriving 176
The end is only a new beginning… 176
Endnotes 179
Bibliography 186
Index 188
