Life is but a series of connections and an experiment in perception.
~mynorthwind

This is from a good friend of mine. She says she’s still not sure if it’s hers originally, but no other source has been found to attribute it to. I gladly leave it in her devoted watchcare :)

When you stop and look at it for a few minutes, there’s a lot being said here. A “series of connections” – yes, that would certainly be a good model for approaching life. Every moment of every day, we are brought in contact with various threads, each stretching from something – animate or inanimate – around us. As we act upon those threads, or they are acted upon around us, connections are made and strengthened by the actions that are taken and the events that take place. And as is the nature of interconnected things, when you pull hard enough on one set of strings, it can be felt across a large number of them. I think that’s why when you’ve been around people long enough, or had strong experiences, you can know when something happens in their lives. The connections that bind you begin to go taut, and though how much you know depends on just how well you know them, you know something is going on.

As an “experiment in perception” – most definitely. Everything we hold to, everything we ‘believe’, has been introduced into our lives as it is refined and defined by the manners in which we perceive it. It starts with the visceral experiences, each weighed and given rank and file by the heart – what we have passion for we remember, while much else falls to the wayside. Then the mind sorts, categorizes, and catalogs what has been taken in – it creates the order that some feel is the only necessity to hold the bastions of civilization in place. The last, perhaps the least explored – the body itself. The memories of movements that can be quicker than we can consciously process or respond to. The tugs toward something, the aversion to another – these are the brushes against the unknowables, and though it speaks to us in sense and thought, it is the body itself that allows us to learn the steps what let us move with them.

Life is but a series of connections and an experiment in perception. — emphasis my own. These two together – I do believe they cover everything :)