The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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