I went out into the world
and looked inwards
which is to say
I looked outwards
and I saw everything
in myself
and myself in everything
so I laughed
because I realised
it was all nothing
as I was nothing more than
a mirroring
I went out into the world
and looked inwards
which is to say
I looked outwards
and I saw everything
in myself
and myself in everything
so I laughed
because I realised
it was all nothing
as I was nothing more than
a mirroring
Man knows himself only inasmuch as he knows the world. He knows the world only within himself, and he is aware of himself only within the world. Each new object, truly recognized, opens up a new organ within ourselves. – Goethe (found in ‘A Fortunate Man’ by John Berger; which book recommended)
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