The Human Tapestry

All of us are born into an already existing human tapestry. The cultural habits, the beliefs, rituals, ways of thinking, etc. This tapestry has existed since the beginning of human history.

This tapestry is woven and held together with language. The nouns; labels for objects and locations. The adjectives, the way in which we describe the tapestry, the verbs, the way in which we move about in this tapestry. This tapestry exists in the domain of language and is everything we think is real. All our thoughts and responses are woven, repeating patterns of this human tapestry, patterns that have existed for thousands of years.

What is not so obvious is that our very identity, the very concept of everything "I am," the very idea of a separate individual self, has also been woven into this human tapestry. All our beliefs, our values, the way we relate with each other, the way we move about our "world," the very way in which we can think, all woven in the fabric of this human tapestry. As soon as we start speaking, we are caught within the fabric of this linguistic human tapestry.