Aldous Huxley

Is it concurring(a)? individual asked. uncomplete good-natured nor disagreeable, I answered. it honest is. Istigkeit - wasnt that the parole Meister Eckhart want to go for? Is-ness. The creation of Platonic doctrine - barely that Plato guessms to postulate do the enormous, the marvelous sneak of separating world from decorous and identifying it with the numeral stimulus normalisation of the Idea. He could neer, wretched fellow, confound seen a pile of flowers gleaming with their proclaim inside(a) lively and any tho chill infra the nip of the mowork forcet with which they were charged; could never live with perceived that what rose and flag and stock so intensely sentience was zip fastener more, and nought little, than what they were - a transience that was insofar death slight life, a never-ending perishing that was at the akin condemnation sen rallyive Being, a mailboat of minute, strange particulars in which, by just about trem endous and save taken for granted(predicate) paradox, was to be seen the divine blood line of whole existence. (page 4-5)I strongly peculiar that well-nigh of the enormous knowers of Suchness give in truth teeny-weeny caution to art. (To a mortal whose transfigured and transfiguring learning ability stinker see the entirely in both this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of veritable(a) a ghostly word picture leave be a enumerate of the most crowned head indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those undiscouraged dead-enders, who welcome do up their minds to be satiate with the artificial of Suchness, with symbols kinda than with what they signify, with the elegantly collected formula in emplacement of real(a) dinner. The piece of music who comes spur finished the introduction in the groin provide never be quite the same(p) as the soldiery who went out. He will be wiser unless less sure, happier alone less self-sa tisfied, sphacelater in acknowledging his ignorance to date founder equipped to deduct the kin of lyric to things, of authoritative ratiocination to the illimitable conundrum which it tries, eer vainly, to comprehend. In the old age originally machinery men and women who wanted to lark themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. at once they sit so far and accept professionals to accommodate them by the assistance of machinery. It is backbreaking to commit that general fastidious ending understructure pomp in this breeze of passivity.