Rupert Spira - The Transparency of Things

Rupert Spira - The Transparency of Things

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Before We Are Two: On the Primacy of Relationship

Before We Are Two: On the Primacy of Relationship

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Rupert Spira
May 24, 2025
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We tend to imagine the world as composed of separate things – selves and others, minds and bodies, subjects and objects – each existing independently, each coming into contact with others only secondarily. From this perspective, relationship is something that happens between already-existing entities. First there is you, then there is me, and then, perhaps, there is our relationship.

But what if the truth was the other way around?

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