Thursday, March 22, 2007

On Thinking, Thoughtlessness, and Stillness

"So long as we do not, through thinking, experience what is, we can never belong to what will be" (Martin Heidegger "The Turning" p.49).

"Let us not fool ourselves. All of us, including those who think professionally, as it were, are often enough thought-poor; we are all far too easily thought-less. Thoughtlessness is an uncanny visitor who comes and goes everywhere in today's world. For nowadays we take in everything in the quickest and chepeast way, only to forget it just as quickly, instantly" (Martin Heidegger, "Discourse on Thinking" p.44-45).

"The flash that comes out of stillness, as stillness itself. Stillness stills. What does it still? It stills Being into the coming to presence of world" (Martin Heidegger, "The Turning" p.49).

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