From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 15:14:29 GMT
Hi all,
Yeah I love that Kafka quote. The problem is someone keeps coming to
drag you out of the room. Maybe in a straight-jacket...
Then there's this, from the man himself:
The more he had tried to pin them down on what they were talking
about the vaguer they had gotten. Now with this Quality he seemed to
say the same thing and talk as vaguely as they did, even though what
he talked about was as hard and clear and solid as any rationally
defined entity he'd ever dealt with.
Quality. That's what they'd been talking about all the time. "Man,
will you just please, kindly dig it," he remembered one of them
saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions?
If you got to ask what is it all the time, you'll never get time to
know." Soul. Quality. The same? (ZMM)
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is
everything." -- Henri Poincare'
On 7 Dec 2004 at 8:49, Platt Holden wrote:
I agree with the implication that there's nothing mysterious about
mystic experience because "it's right in front of us all the time."
All you have to do is look. Thus, writing about and discussing it at
length, while interesting perhaps, isn't necessary to understand it.
In fact, words and thoughts get in the way. The following quote from
Krishnamurti puts mysticism in proper perspective:
"The real is near you, you do not have to search for it; and a man
who seeks the truth will never find it. Truth is in what 'is' -- and
that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment
you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot
understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively
aware."
Which leads to my favorite quote of all time, from Franz Kafka:
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite
still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be
unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
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