The I (the blazing one)

The inner source of all being, which shines out from every part of a unified work; reaching it is the ultimate aim of making.

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Concepts (2)

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Picture of the Self (as measurement criterion)
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The experimental criterion by which degree of life in a center is measured: which of two things more resembles the observer's own eternal self.
unity
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The indivisible oneness, meltedness that is the source of life; it cannot be described as a structure because it is pure one.

Chapters (1)

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The Goal of Tears
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The title concept: tears represent the achievement of unity and sadness in a work, where the geometry itself embodies a quality that brings one to tears.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Blazing Oneconcept0.844
The pure unity beyond the veil, the blazing furnace of intense light, glimpsed when a living center opens a window.
The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.claim0.836
Access to the deepest self is dependent on the maker expressing their own feeling, not intellectual concepts.
The I (Great Self)concept0.766
The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
The I (eternal self)concept0.765
Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.
When this is achieved, or touched, to the extent that it is achieved, then, that is what I mean by reaching and touching the I, the blazing one.claim0.748
The final definition: achieving sadness in a work is the act of touching the I.
The I (ground)concept0.744
The fundamental self, ground, or substratum underlying all existence; a real thing, a blinding unity, accessible through inner light.
The I, in some form, exists.claim0.734
Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.717
The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.