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"To now see human-things as this, and that, and label it as such-and-such took the soul from it, the experience of being in all purity."

instantly reminded me of "the tree with the lights in it" (pilgrim at tinker creek). the tree aspect is just a coincidence of it but it echoes the same idea of the purity of seeing things without any associations