The anatomy of the Human Spirit, a human strategy, aphorism 402
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The anatomy of the Human Spirit:
The inner man takes a step back away from things ... and attempts to visualize relationships, between himself and things, himself and others, but chiefly, between his “inner” and his “outer” self.
The outer man is concerned with things and people only, which he does not see as thing desired ... thing and desire are inseparable from him. His movement depends upon his taking each step for granted. He would never ask himself, “Why do I desire this?”
The inner man is the thwarted man. He questions his desire for what he cannot have ... so as to eliminate the desired object from his equation of himself ... or at least to “go around” his “miscalculations” of low self-esteem.
The outer man is the absolute master. His path is clear. Why place the obstacle of a question in his own way? Why stop for an equation? Questions and equations are for going around obstacles, but if there are no obstacles? Would not the question and the equation, as longer routes, become obstacles?
The inner man is the perfect servant. He has no direct path to his own object. He has no Will of his own, and of the Will that is granted to him, he must first justify and explain before he can act — or receive yet another confirmation from an even higher authority. He must conciliate and compromise ... or find new and higher rules. Consequently, every simple task or aspect grows ... every solution complicates ... yet serves as gauge to his own spirituality, as proof that he has grown more intricate, delicate. He himself becomes an invaluable instrument of precision for measuring the universe.
The outer man cannot see these “frills” and “extra baggage” of the inner man without rolling on the ground with laughter. He has one Will only ... for he does not see his contradictions while passing from one moment to the next. Consequently, he alone sees no hypocrisy in his conduct, being as he is … sincere. He is the supreme ruler, the conquistador. His tendency is toward oversimplification — his anatomy for example: his hand and brain are one single organ.