photocopy of intellecutal text -- author unknown
Handwritten in sharpie: "Whatever happened to Evil?" -- Think: operate on by thought. . . HOW to think. . . Not What to think. . . Quality hybridized out of existence -- a fat, hard, Lumpy, tasteless, nutritionless tomato lasting on the shelf in its liefelessness and lack of vulnerability. . . . offering nothing but its profit for the intermediary -- alien to original succulence, being and tenderness. . . To think: to form mental image, imagine, re-call, re-collect, apprehend; to believe. . . The Seed is the synthesis growth is the analysis. . . True reality is only one. . . the degress of ignorance are many. . .Every living thing has memory. The most primitive unicellar protozoa, a lump of protein has what biologists call mnemic memory. It remembers everything -- thought without apparent awareness. . . A lamp is not for a lamps sake, but to give light. . . Definition: thing -- in itself: a thing of no consequence if not transmittor of something.. . . ..THe method is not the message. . . Quality: characteristic which makes it good or bad, moral dispostiion, or habit, degree of excellence or fineness, characteristic of embodiment, to do with essential. . . Quality: that which should be merely enumerated, not to do with quality, artificial abstraction of degree, to do with numbers not essences, relative categroy of more or less. . . method of relating "quantity". . . .Apprehend: to take into the mind and being, to grasp completely, to take into complete awareness, intellectually and emotionally, into cognisance, to capture nature. . . to believe. Appropriate: to claim to oneself, to take for any use, to do with property as possession, to take for prupose to exclusion of all other purposes, set apart. . . Apprehension: perceiving, realizing, in state of fear, alarm, fearful, inclined to believe or suspect. . . The mind and essence are of a pure nature, but since there is the finite aspect of it which is sullied by finite views, there is the sullied aspect of it. . .Mind and matter and awareness are eternally the same. . .As the essence of matter is Wisdom, the essence of matter is without form and is called the embodiment of wisdom or destruction BUT -- "professionals" don't cry? they merely count
- Subject Matter: Intersect of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy and Social Science
- Collections: Fabric and Textile Works