What potential long-term societal and mental health impacts could result from the normalization of juggling multiple jobs in response to stagnant wages and rising living costs?
Reality is not simply what we perceive through our senses, but an entire world of layered interactions and a constant dialogue between what is already given and the aspiration for the new. In this living dance of actual being and unexplored horizons lies its magnetism: every element, every detail, not merely existing but actively responding to the call of the unknown, much like a magnet unconsciously attracting iron. That is why our daily life is filled with an energy that compels us to look deeper and seek new facets of existence. We encounter an objective set of facts, and at the same time, we sense something elusive that awakens an inner pull, as if nature itself whispers that within its wholeness and contradictions lies something greater than mere ordinariness. This attraction, based not only on cold data but also on sensual experience, renders reality alive and dynamic, urging us toward perpetual searching and understanding.
One can understand this idea as follows: our life, with all its sufferings and fleeting events, is a temporary arena—an illusory game in which movement and changing states dominate, as if we were playing by the rules of time that restrict and narrow our perception. At the same time, hidden behind this temporal “mask” lies an eternal, multidimensional existence where losses do not occur as they do in the realm of time, where every moment is intertwined with inevitable change and suffering.
Closedness within oneself—manifested as an excessive focus on the narrow, subjective "I"—prevents enlightenment because it deprives one of a true and profound connection with objective, primordial reality. When a person becomes immersed solely in their limited inner worlds, they lose the opportunity to experience union with that which transcends individual identity—a boundless source of being. As noted in one source, it is through delving into the "inner primordial reality" that one first establishes an authentic connection with objective reality, which in turn reveals to the individual a connection with the "transcendent foundation of being" and provides the possibility of liberation from the apparent unconditional subordination to the external world (source: 1268_6336.txt).
The difference between extracting meaning and embedding it lies in the fact that traditionally, one might think that meaning is already contained within the text and that the task is simply to "extract" this objective meaning. However, an analysis of the presented materials shows that the meaning of a text is not something predetermined or objectively existing. On the contrary, it emerges in the dialogue between the reader and the text; meaning is "embedded" in the text when the reader, relying on their cultural, personal, and contextual experience, ascribes significance to it.