heard a great quote the other day, but can't remember who it was:
'You are something that the whole universe is doing just as surely as a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.'
Plasticum, eh? Don't like the name, personally--sounds too much like something produced in a factory with harsh chemicals. Heh. I get why you'd choose that name, but i wonder if maybe there isn't something... gentler? More natural?
Anyway, call it whatever you want. Truth needs no labels. :)
I'm currently reading a book of her essays. Quitmonez summarized some of her main ideas, and to go further abou the idea of seperation, she often talks about the impersonal as being the only true state that is important. The part that is seperate from our persnality, our wants and others.
She critiques artists too, she was scathing about the surrealists. She said that often artists are slaves to what people think of them and that their art is often just their own personality on display, (it's all about them) rather than trying to create a thing of beauty that is beyond ownership and who created it.
Lately I've been reading about her ideas about justice and oppression. She discusses the idea that there is a singular human experience while one is being oppressed, one that makes it important and it is that voice that cries out "why am i being hurt?". We must attune ourselves to this voice. she believes that we all have this primary trust that no harm will come to us.
sorry, rambling here now. anyways, that's what i know so far, 5 essays to go. :)
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so who is she? what's she all about? i only know her as a lit name...
I really like Weil, she has many of the ideas that were once found in the Organicum, now termed, the Plasticum.
For example, she wrote that G-d had to delimit him/her-self in order for us to be granted existence.
She is also a big believer in the ontological richness of absence, meaning that it is in separation that most of the world comes to be.
I was wondering when a woman would hit the series.
Plastic-ohm!
heard a great quote the other day, but can't remember who it was:
'You are something that the whole universe is doing just as surely as a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.'
Plasticum, eh? Don't like the name, personally--sounds too much like something produced in a factory with harsh chemicals. Heh. I get why you'd choose that name, but i wonder if maybe there isn't something... gentler? More natural?
Anyway, call it whatever you want. Truth needs no labels. :)
truth needs no labels.
absolutely!
I'm currently reading a book of her essays. Quitmonez summarized some of her main ideas, and to go further abou the idea of seperation, she often talks about the impersonal as being the only true state that is important. The part that is seperate from our persnality, our wants and others.
She critiques artists too, she was scathing about the surrealists. She said that often artists are slaves to what people think of them and that their art is often just their own personality on display, (it's all about them) rather than trying to create a thing of beauty that is beyond ownership and who created it.
Lately I've been reading about her ideas about justice and oppression.
She discusses the idea that there is a singular human experience while one is being oppressed, one that makes it important and it is that voice that cries out "why am i being hurt?". We must attune ourselves to this voice. she believes that we all have this primary trust that no harm will come to us.
sorry, rambling here now.
anyways, that's what i know so far, 5 essays to go.
:)
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