We speak of ‘inspiration,’ and the word should be taken literally. There really is inspiration and expiration of Being.
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What resists phenomenology within us – natural being, the ‘barbarian’ source Schelling spoke of – cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which is not simply the factual absence of future light.
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The whole architecture of the notions of psychology… as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh …There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.
Is this the highest point of reason, to realize that the soil beneath our feet is shifting, to pompously name ‘interrogation’ what is only a persistent state of stupor, to call ‘research’ or ‘quest’ what is only trudging in a circle, to call ‘Being’ that which never fully is?
The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon Being, because they more closely convey the life of the whole and make our habitual evidences vibrate until they disjoin.
If at the center and so to speak the kernel of Being there is an infinite infinite, every partial being directly or indirectly presupposes it, and is in return really or eminently contained in it. All the relationships we can have to Being must be simultaneously founded upon it.
The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a reminding of this being.
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But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history, and since sensation is a reconstitution, it pre-supposes in me sediments left behind by some previous constitution, so that I am, as a sentient subject, a repository stocked with natural powers at which I am the first to be filled with wonder.
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.