2013/12/20

KILLING THE BUTTERFLY

What a difference, between seeing oneself through thoughts, preconceptions (the mind) and that prelinguistic, direct way of perceiving with no labeling whatsoever. When you shift into the latter, you have a one-off, unique cocktail in your cup the myriad constituents of which are ever varying in density, light, spaciousness, texture, friction, flow. I’m fine, you say roughly. Fine? What does that mean at a given moment? How are the countless dots connected whose momentarily outcome is what you’re used to call the Self? The ordinary language acts like pinning the butterfly. “I’m fine”, and you have done with it. Killed the butterfly. Only art could offer an organic expression of those instants when one lives from within. 

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