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How Can There Be Methods And Systems To Arrive At Something That Is Living? To That Which Is Static, Fixed, Dead, There Can Be A Way, A Definite Path, But Not To That Which Is Living. Do Not Reduce Reality To A Static Thing And Then Invent Methods To Reach It. ...truth Has No Path. Truth Is Living And, Therefore, Changing. It Has No Resting Place, No Form, No Organized Institution, No Philosophy. When You See That, You Will Understand That This Living Thing Is Also What You Are. You Cannot Express And Be Alive Through Static, Put-together Form, Through Stylized Movement.

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How Can There Be Methods And Systems To Arrive At Something That Is Living? To That Which Is Static, Fixed, Dead, There Can Be A Way, A Definite Path, But Not To That Which Is Living. Do Not Reduce Reality To A Static Thing And Then Invent Methods To Reach It. ...truth Has No Path. Truth Is Living And, Therefore, Changing. It Has No Resting Place, No Form, No Organized Institution, No Philosophy. When You See That, You Will Understand That This Living Thing Is Also What You Are. You Cannot Express And Be Alive Through Static, Put-together Form, Through Stylized Movement.

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The Western Approach To Reality Is Mostly Through Theory, And Theory Begins By Denying Reality - To Talk About Reality, To Go Around Reality, To Catch Anything That Attracts Our Sense-intellect And Abstract It Away From Reality Itself. Thus Philosophy Begins By Saying That The Outside World Is Not A Basic Fact, That Its Existence Can Be Doubted And That Every Proposition In Which The Reality Of The Outside World Is Affirmed Is Not An Evident Proposition But One That Needs To Be Divided, Dissected And Analyzed. It Is To Stand Consciously Aside And Try To Square A Circle.

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