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The so-definite fact of this sadness which enters things, and the fact that through this sadness we—all of us, I, you, and the person I have never known—all experience life in those things—it is hard to believe that it is only a trick or a mental state.

The intersubjective reality of the sadness effect argues against its being merely psychological; it points to an objective quality.

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This sadness of tears, when I reach it, is also joy. ... What makes it sad is that it comes closest, in the physical concrete beams and columns and walls, as close as possible, to the fact of my existence on this earth.
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The ultimate sadness is not miserable but a profound acknowledgment of existence, which is both sad and joyful.

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"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.784
Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.784
The making of sadness must come through a process where land, details, rooms form an indivisible whole, always trying to tie it together, to unify it, to make it disappear.claim0.781
The artistic process of achieving sadness is a unifying one that ultimately makes the parts disappear into a whole.
It was very powerful to witness my perceptions undergoing such a basic alteration ... a fundamental and profound change in the way I perceive things. ... I am acutely moved, as if a very deep part of me is recognizing some long lost elemental truths.quote0.780
A participant's testimony about the transformative effect of the mirror-of-the-self experience.
There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.780
Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.
The relatedness we experience with living things is not a psychological illusion but a real, actual material connection between self and matter.claim0.777
Central thesis of the chapter: the feeling of connection is literal and fundamental.
I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.777
The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
But this lake, even though it allows happiness to exist, is much closer to tears. If you have tears, you can feel them at the sight of the lake, or of the wind ruffles on the surface of the water. Its very existence in the school even allows your tears.claim0.776
The physical environment of the lake at Eishin campus creates a space where sadness can surface, unlike a typical asphalt playground.