self manifesting first principle
fundamental idea with the power to self manifest
potentiality with the power to actualize
The present is a realization or actualization of the past and future which are potentialities.
Music lives in the moment but its yearning is for the next moment. It is the essence of restlessness, of finding completion in the infinite regress of the horizon beyond the now.
If knowledge is always knowledge of something, then only reason leads to knowledge. All knowledge is through sense perception and memory. Direct knowledge, intuition, noesis, is not based on experience.
The oak dreams of the acorn. The acorn dreams of the oak. The stump lives in them both.
There is nothing that can be said that can do more for understanding the full meaning and purpose of life (enlightenment) than what a finger pointing at the moon can do for ‘seeing’ the moon.
Matter conveys individuality, form universality.
Guilt is the father of anger, hatred, self loathing. Salvation is the undoing of guilt through forgiveness, redemption. Guilt is self loathing. Achieve blamelessness through self sacrifice…accept the self as sacred.