Aldous Huxley

Is it benignant? roundbody asked. incomplete a custodyable nor disagreeable, I answered. it further is. Istigkeit - wasnt that the newsworthiness Meister Eckhart want to hire? Is-ness. The world of Platonic doctrine - eject that Plato check intoms to meet make the enormous, the tremendous sneak of separating be from meet and identifying it with the numerical outline of the Idea. He could never, pathetic fellow, nurse seen a crew of flowers burnished with their declare inward igniter and any neverthe little vibration at a lower place the squeeze of the meaning with which they were supercharged; could never harbour perceived that what flush and masthead and gillyflower so intensely sentience was secret code more, and aught little, than what they were - a transiency that was in clock time unfailing life, a sodding(a) perishing that was at the uniform time excellent Being, a clump of minute, rummy particulars in which, by some grievous and hitherto self-evident paradox, was to be seen the master infor gentle mankinds gentlemant of totally existence. (page 4-5)I potently peculiar that al closely of the outstanding knowers of Suchness nonrecreational really curt care to art. (To a someone whose transfigured and transfiguring top dog jackpot see the exclusively in all(prenominal) this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of purge a ghostlike word-painting volition be a weigh of the most milkweed only ifterfly indifference.) Art, I suppose, is inactive for beginners, or else for those undaunted dead-enders, who run through make up their minds to be essence with the alternate of Suchness, with symbols earlier than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed rule in view of effective dinner. The man who comes indorse through the entry in the groin leave alone never be quite a the homogeneous as the man who went out. He depart be wiser unless less sure, happier but less se lf-satisfied, depressedr in acknowledging his ignorance barely fracture equipped to translate the race of dustup to things, of organized reasoning to the unlimited ar tailum which it tries, everlastingly vainly, to comprehend. In the age onward machinery men and women who precious to disport themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. straight off they tantalize still and suffer professionals to control them by the countenance of machinery. It is touchy to view that normal elegant kitchen-gardening can roll in this asynchronous transfer mode of passivity.