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concept:purity-of-heartPurity of heart
A state of extreme spiritual simplicity and clarity that living structure must achieve; all extraneous stuff removed.
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- The state free from mental constructs, images, and theories that interfere with directly perceiving wholeness; cultivated by mystical practice.
- The ultimate condition of living structure where the whole becomes a single, undivided entity made of beings, all rooted in the same I.
- The spiritual center in a person, the inward point of contact with the Void, the Self, or God, emphasized in Sufi and Zen teachings.
- A quality of profound, direct emotional impact in art and places—something that seizes up all of childhood and essence in one configuration.
- The quality of gardens that brings us in touch with the orderly-yet-uncontrollable, wild-yet-cultivated nature of life.
- A necessary state of mind for making living things, characterized by absence of self-importance and complete attention to the thing itself.
- First numbered assertion about deep liking.
- The claim that beauty is not subjective but arises objectively from the degree of life and wholeness in things.