click this doll house for more detail

click this doll house for more detail
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Aristotle: the desire to understand

"epesteme" 

"to understand" the nature of one's own Being, the objective of the self in the process of the journey beyond the cave of darkness. Awareness at once lifts the soul towards an ascent into a realm where the phenomena of the environment, the sanctuary of the self, brings a serene wonder - the telos of discovering the nature of our own existence, as a being that unifies the domains of the divine and that of the mundane. The euporia or "easy passage or travel" brings to the fore of life-living in intellectual simplicity, a coming to know the rhythms of the moment. Thought, thinking itself, as the mind's eye opens to see the light of the spiritual world, as the soul of the self is enveloped and dissolves into the world-soul...

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