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The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are. Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, What a beautiful flower!, but thats just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they dont truly see the flower, dont feel its essence, its holiness -just as they dont know themselves, dont feel their own essence, their own holiness. Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot -even for a moment- free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilisation has ever produced so much ugliness. (The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle) Em sento una mica així últimament...
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:27:50 +0000

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