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perfection.


"the new thought that is finding its birth is the thought of be-ing. it is thought that does not find its destination in a group of beliefs, a system of reasons, or a summarizable body of contents. this new thought composes a way of thinking ... that is less a position than it is a manner of disciplined awareness with the occurence of being... they address issues of cultural survival that range from unconscious boredom and a frenzy of production, consumption, and search for distracting novelty and projects, from easy, thoughtless identification of people and things, to moments of crystal, physical insight when the entire world shimmers with fragile, passing sufficiency of meaning and beauty, when each being stands forth in the uniqueness of its own event..."

"in heidegger's mature thought there is no dimension in which there are beings. there is, rather, the dimensionality of their happening, there being here as disclosive occurrences..."

the quotes are from the introduction to a series of essays on heidegger's "contributions to philosophy" - his most poetic and open, difficult yet gentle - hopelessly formlessly gentle - text. on amazon they say there are second hand copies from as little as five dollars, though these may well be copies that have been partially used as kinder in camp fires, but a reasonable copy might come in at ten or fifteen dollars (and slightly battered would be ok since it will be very battered by the end of the walk), so if you dont find anything else before i arrive maybe this could be a good call for the pilgrimage - and remember to buy a title for yourself too. here's the info: