I humbly ask that my readers/interpreters forgive the evolving nature of this text. I don't have much in the way of reporting these days (besides getting a B- on my japanese test; woohoo!), so instead, I implore.
"You cannot know the answer to the question of worthwileness in advance of your own experience...it is a commitment to being guided by our experience but not dictated to by it. I think of this as checking one's experience."
"One learns that without this trust in one's experience -- expressed as a willingness to find words for it -- without thus taking an interest in it, one is without authority in one's own experience. I think of this authority as the right to take an interest in your own experience. I suppose the primary good of a teacher is to prompt his or her students to find their way to that authority; without, rote is fate. The world, under minimum conditions of civilizatoin, could not without our cooperation so thoroughly contrive to seperate us from this authority. Think of it as learning neither to impose your experience on the world nor to have it imposed upon by the world. It is learning freedom of consciousness, which you might see as becoming civilized..." (Pursuits of Happiness)
Point being: there is no final word. (sort of...ask if you're really curious)
And that, (un)fortunately, is all I have to write.
"You cannot know the answer to the question of worthwileness in advance of your own experience...it is a commitment to being guided by our experience but not dictated to by it. I think of this as checking one's experience."
"One learns that without this trust in one's experience -- expressed as a willingness to find words for it -- without thus taking an interest in it, one is without authority in one's own experience. I think of this authority as the right to take an interest in your own experience. I suppose the primary good of a teacher is to prompt his or her students to find their way to that authority; without, rote is fate. The world, under minimum conditions of civilizatoin, could not without our cooperation so thoroughly contrive to seperate us from this authority. Think of it as learning neither to impose your experience on the world nor to have it imposed upon by the world. It is learning freedom of consciousness, which you might see as becoming civilized..." (Pursuits of Happiness)
Point being: there is no final word. (sort of...ask if you're really curious)
And that, (un)fortunately, is all I have to write.
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