BARRIERS OF THE MIND

Numbers are so simple, but at the same time, they are hugely complex.  It's a paradox which illustrates how we exist.  We live in the dynamics of opposites where, for example, we only know we're full because we've experienced empty, and when we go there, we're not here. These two conflicting sides have to meet at some point in their crossing, and that's when it's paradoxically this, but at the same time, that.

If you tried to deal with all of this all of the time, your brain would overload and seize up.  The mind can only go so far.  It needs form and shape, mentally or physically, to express and understand the environment and thinking process.  Numbers can provide this structure, even though they themselves have no body or mass, except through the linear shape that identifies them.  Each one represents a count or measure, and this is what gives form to the vast expanse in which we live.  They are a tangible expression of the abstract from which everything unfolds; a matrix that connects all things to all things.

Everything, including molecules, minerals, elements and gases has a number.  O2 is oxygen, for example.  From this, scientists can add another element, another number, and build up an extraordinary, complex and informative formula.  Unlike colours, numbers keep their sharpness and purity when combined, so it's possible to multiply, divide, add and subtract them.  For this reason, we cannot just stamp one meaning on a particular number.  We must listen to them to discover the language of their diverse qualities.