the spirit of human becoming, A Human Strategy, aphorism 388
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An eye for the spirit of human becoming would find innumerable subtle devices, which would appear static, but which over time would prove their great worth to the process. For example, the chair does more than the desk; food, more than the plate it is served upon; a physical affection holds more love than an ideal love which pours itself through a sieve, believing itself exempt from the need for physical touch, and so becoming unknowingly duplicitous. The human spirit as such is a consequence of conditions and is not the rational explanation of itself. The two stand side by side, the condition preceding them. It is easy for the explanation to deny that which cannot express itself, and how can the condition to expression have anything to say for itself? If one believes in the totality of the explanation, then one’s science becomes as duplicitous as one’s idealism had been. When one refuses to split, ironically, by refusing to deny one’s other half, one’s twin, then one is forever tracing things back to their beginning ... to their ineffable unity. Science cannot explain our spirit fully, and the spirit is not the knowledge of its own beginnings and endings, yet all things necessary to the process of increasing knowledge are nonetheless completed — and not without our exalted sensation. Unity is. The wheel rolls. Each point is demonstrated to stop and touch at a particular point. We do not by that very observation stop the wheel.