something like a collage is at the heart of the unstable and highly personal process of perception
how endlessly strange reality is when we look at it rather than through it
I-Thou recognizes the irreducibility and absolute equality of the other
But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars — compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
reality is blobby. it refuses to be systematized.
when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unsuable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths.
I have thrown away my lantern, and I can see the dark.