You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche
"All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth (which has no birth or death)."
Milarepa
Constructivists posit that the two worlds – the undifferentiated, homogenous real world and the perceived and understood world – impinge on human consciousness simultaneously. The limitations of our cognitive, sensory, and biological apparatus force human perception to break reality into discrete, bite-sized units of information that can be understood, contextualized, and gradually assimilated to make the world more predictable for our survival. The ontological elements that facilitate symbolic interaction by organizing individual experiences in a meaningful way are called constructs. Constructs are always being tested against reality and refined dynamically through feedback (Kelly, 1991a). As a stimulus is translated into units of information, it creates an approximation of the physical features that exist in the real world, converting objective reality into our perceptual reality. Prior individual experiences attempt to fill all gaps between reality and perception (Bruner, 1973, as cited in Engler, 1986). Kellian perception is concerned with the world as perceived by the perceiver; the real world itself exists unconcerned with our perception of it. Perceptual constructs thus can be viewed as external impositions on an independent reality; the elements of reality by themselves exist free and regardless of their constructs (Kelly, 1991a). In human context, this becomes a valid argument for viewing man as being free of his constructs and for viewing enslavement and distress as self-imposed on his essentially independent reality. The powerlessness and consequential anxiety faced by individuals in the etiology of human suffering is a universal phenomenon against which perceptual reality seeks predictive validity in order to maximize control over environment. This insight gives man the much needed psychological permission to deconstruct and reconstruct his reality and work towards a fulfilling life.
