Re: "If words cannot describe it, why speak of it?" -- Pedro Cortina
(1) Haiku-Wise:
The Joy of Sharing
An Infinite Potential
To Express Being.
***
Exploration through
Creative Self-Expression
Is an Innate Drive.
The Creative "Self-
Expression Imperative
Of Life" demands it!
***
Being Expresses
And Explores an "Absolute
Potential to Be."
The Expression of
An "Absolute Potential
To Be" drives us on.
(2) Bill Samuel-Wise:
(From Vignettes on Love)
(3) Metaphor-Wise:
"Although we can not fully define an absolute state in relative terms, we can use analogies, metaphors and similes in an attempt to evoke or recall a direct sense or perception of that state. Thus, if I have an experience I wish to share, I can use a metaphor to indicate what it felt like with the hope of evoking a similar feeling in another. This is the verbal equivalent of having someone balance a coin to convey what balance feels like. This is because balance, as an absolute or non-relative state, cannot be captured in words, yet can be known as a direct experience. Thus, by moving a coin back and forth through its balance point, while progressively reducing said movements, one may get a feel for almost balanced. Then, suddenly, as the coin comes to rest, perhaps a direct sense of balance, as a non-relative state, may be (evoked and) experienced (directly)."
(From the Introduction of "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses")
P.S. Thanks for a great question, Pedro! 😊
[Rich Note: Here's a link to Pedro's Book, "Curflexion: Living the Infinite Space of Being":
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