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“A religious person is able to see the ‘gods’ in a dewdrop, a flower, a falling star, an animal which crosses his path, a sunbeam. When this happens, he has a total experience. But if he adopts an aesthetic attitude towards this flower or this dewdrop, he looks at only one aspect. The aesthetic attitude is a partial attitude. Such an attitude protects against an abundance of other sensations and is therefore per definition one-sided and superficial.”
― Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive
― Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive
“The flower is strong in its beauty as it can be forgotten, set aside, or destroyed. The ambitious do not know beauty. The feeling of essence is beauty.”
― On God: A Spiritual Philosophy for Radical Freedom―Experiencing the Sacred Beyond Dogma
― On God: A Spiritual Philosophy for Radical Freedom―Experiencing the Sacred Beyond Dogma
“Do not expect me to fly at the capacity of your height”
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“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.”
― Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage
― Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage
“There is an expression in Japanese that says that someone who makes things of poor quality is in fact worse than a thief because he doesn't make things that will last or provide true satisfaction. A thief at least redistributes the wealth of a society.”
― Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity
― Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity
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