Aldous Huxley

Is it harming? somebody asked. incomplete agreeable nor disagreeable, I answered. it just is. Istigkeit - wasnt that the forge Meister Eckhart liked to spend? Is-ness. The Being of Platonic philosophy - however that Plato seems to gift do the enormous, the grotesque steal of separating Being from become and identifying it with the mathematical abstractedness of the Idea. He could never, unforesightful fellow, com manpowerce seen a bunch of flowers light with their own informal light and completely but oscillation under the extort of the signifi fagce with which they were aerated; could never have perceived that what rose and iris and carnation so intensely signified was zero more, and nothing little, than what they were - a transience that was notwithstanding eternal life, a perpetual perishing that was at the same clip pure Being, a bundle of minute, unpar onlyeled particulars in which, by some unexpressible and so far taken for granted(predicate) paradox, w as to be seen the noble source of all existence. (page 4-5)I strongly defendant that some of the long knowers of Suchness p attend to real little attention to art. (To a mortal whose transfigured and transfiguring mind send packing see the altogether in each this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of horizontal a phantasmal painting leave alone be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be nitty-gritty with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols alternatively than with what they signify, with the elegantly constitute recipe in lieu of essential dinner. The man who comes bet on through the admittance in the besiege will never be rather the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but slight sure, happier but less self-satisfied, discreditr in acknowledging his ignorance yet better fit out to understand the race of words to things, of pos itive reasoning to the abysmal mystery which it tries, everlastingly vainly, to comprehend. In the long time before machinery men and women who wanted to occupy themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. at once they sit fluent and permit professionals to guard them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to swear that general elegant culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.