We need to perceive the greater picture
The Apartment Building

From the book "Contemporary Parables" by Robert Elias Najemy Our perspective of reality is much like looking out from an apartment building. Imagine that you are living in the basement with a very limited view of the street above you. You see only people's feet as they tower above you. You see only the brief scenes which happen just before your window. You see only the portion of those scenes visible from your window. Your perspective of things is quite limited.

After some years you move up to the first floor of the same building. From here you see the same street more clearly. You see more in both directions. You understand more about what is going on. You are seeing the same reality but your perspective has improved.

After some years you move up to the second story and then to the third and the fourth. With each movement upward your view is broader, more encompassing. The events, happening on the street (the same events which were dominating your vision in the basement), are much smaller and less significant, less imposing.

After more years of evolution you arrive to the top of the building from where you can look out in all directions. You have a much more universal perspective from here. What is happening on the street is no longer so threatening. You see far along the street in both directions and perceive from where people and vehicles are coming from and where they are going. You understand more about their movements and purposes. You understand their presence in front of your building now, in terms of where they are coming from and where they are going, and thus you understand them better.

On which floor are you now living? Would you like to see things more clearly? How can you to do that?

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About the Author

Robert Elias Najemy who is the author of 20 books which have sold over 100,000 copies. He is the founder and has been the director of the Center for Harmonious Living in Athens, Greece for the last 26 years. The center has a membership of 3000 clients and 600 students. He has lectured over 25,000 hours and has worked with around 20,000 persons through personal appointments, classes and seminars. He has produced over 500 cassettes and videocassettes with an abundance of information or human harmony. He is not a psychologist, nor a doctor but rather a chemical engineer who gave up his profession 35 years ago in order to study human nature and all aspects of human health, happiness, harmony and spiritual development. He has a certificate in Counseling from the Counseling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (UK) and certificates as a practitioner of three forms of Energy Psychology; specifically Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapas Acupuncture Techniques (TAT) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). Robert has developed a six-year self-knowledge seminar which is taught at his school and has also been recorded on 200 acoustic and videocassettes and is thus available in other cities. He has trained more than 250 life coaches, 50 of whom now work with him in Athens, Greece and other affiliated centers around Greece and Cyprus. His site is www.HolisticHarmony.com