Monday, February 01, 2016

The Articulation of Experience


The articulation of experience: this is what an artist does. The artist, in creating, willfully manipulates the received experience of an audience. The painting, the music, the theater; play upon the human intellectual and emotional vulnerabilities as a hand might pluck the strings of a harp. The articulation of experience in the minds of others is also the purpose of the conventions of social groups. Every day language is a means of this same manipulation. All communication is a creation of form in the mind of another......an articulation of experience.

People are by and large too busy trying to express themselves to understand the Self, and the mind of the non-meditator is spontaneously opaque.

Kindness and generosity are advised.


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