A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 118

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Concluding with the Surface: A thought is a fly in a jar.  As long as it respects its limits, remains in the center, it can see far and clear and feel its freedom, but as soon as it tries to fly “beyond” its reality ... tries this angle and that ... to get “behind” the fact ... beneath the surface ... “in the world but not of the world” ... as soon as it flies off in a buzzing fury toward the “ultimate,” we hear nothing but the frenzied pit-pat of its own scared ideas.  Do not misunderstand me here.  To be the fly in the jar is not the despair, but quite the contrary, to be the fly and believe that there is no jar is the madness.  We need not transcend reality — reality is the goal — we must transcend “mind” ... to see through the glass but never forget that it is there.



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