Insides without Outsides

Stylized vase overflowing with flowers surrounded by patterned borders, from painted lacquer work

There are at least two things that the observer cannot view from the outside.

And one ancient thread of mysticism consists of the quest to experience these two things as the same thing.

Success is usually fleeting, if it happens at all.


 

“Oh, it’s the never realized question
What is it that we are part of?
And what is it that we are?”

– ‘The Half-Remarkable Question‘ (1968), The Incredible String Band

 


Image Source: Old Book Illustrations