A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always chan… - Medard Boss
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always chan…
- Medard Boss
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly… - Medard Boss
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly…
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which ou… - Medard Boss
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which ou…
A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statement… - Medard Boss
A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statement…
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, i… - Medard Boss
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, i…
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,'… - Medard Boss
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,'…
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonde… - Medard Boss
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonde…
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitu… - Medard Boss
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitu…
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. - Medard Boss
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
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