If you closed your eyes while writing on the black slate, it would be the same that having your eyes opened with only one difference: you would feel like flying with your eyes closed.
i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
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If you closed your eyes while writing on the black slate, it would be the same that having your eyes opened with only one difference: you would feel like flying with your eyes closed.
and flying with my eyes closed is very different than flying with them open.......
The sensation would change maybe. But would the esense of the first flying and the second one change?
with eyes open we see what we are flying over...but with our eyes closed.......
...we just feel it...
and with our eyes open, what would happen to the feeling aspect?
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