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The way of seeing I’m aiming at involves stillness, and a holding-to-one-side of overt thoughts, otherwise, those thoughts may pull you away, for they have the traction of their history, ruts, and projections. Stillness can be the first step to opening to openness.
Pulling a thing out of general circulation might also pull yourself out of it. Short-circuiting the given circulation is done in the service of a deeper, more respectful attunement. The capitalistic circulation is, on the whole—often and structurally—not a respectful one.
Stillness is an attempt to listen to things.