1 :: “To put it into words is to destroy it.” J. Krishnamurti.
2 :: The world as it is prior to description, as it is in itself, is without distinctions or demarcations. A tree is not a tree – it just is.
3 :: All truths expressed in language are approximations. Everything I say is partially wrong.
4 :: The sword of language cuts both ways: to harm and to heal. It is how we use it that matters. The most powerful sword is the one that has the greatest potential to both harm and to heal – this is the essence of the confusion around religious and spiritual language.
5 :: Language is a series of signposts. But when these signposts are arranged in the form we call poetry, a mysterious window is formed, allowing more of the light from the signified (=what the signposts are pointing to) to shine forth.
6 :: The world is wordless. Consciousness is wordless. The world as it is in itself has no categories, no boundaries, no demarcations of any kind. We tie ourselves in knots when we forget this.
7 :: Metaphor is the highest form of language. It knows how to “carry across” what would otherwise remain an interminable distance between the description and the described.
8 :: There is, technically speaking, no such thing as literal truth because all language dissects the undissectable, compartmentalises the ultimately unified.
9 :: Nothing is decontextualised without becoming less coherent (=making less sense), hence why all language that tries to contain the truth rather than simply point to it inevitably corrupts (even whilst enhancing) our understanding of what is being pointed at (this is why I write mostly in aphorisms now).
10 :: You cannot describe any object exhaustively without describing the whole universe – exhaustively. Everything really is connected. And if everything is connected, that means there is only really One ‘thing’ in existence.
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