Claudiu:
[Vineeto to Kuba:] What you seem to be missing is gay abandon.
I re-read this quote just now and it could give you pause of planning to dart back and forth from the door of ‘self’-immolation too readily –
RESPONDENT: I’d guess you’d favour the ‘boots and all’ approach, but just to be sure, is there anything one should be specially careful of?
RICHARD: Hesitancy (an opportunity is quite often a very rare thing).
RESPONDENT: Am I understanding you correctly that, once the process begins, you throw caution to the wind and just go all the way, come what may?
RICHARD: Provided there be pure intent (and that is no little proviso) … yes. [emphasis added] (link)
Claudiu: That’s a great quote. I’ve often wondered lately, is it really just throwing caution to the wind and forging forth? Not sure if I thought of it in those exact words (maybe) but along those lines. Sounds like the answer is (as pure intent is certainly in place) yes indeed . It gives good confidence to proceed!
To put it into words it’s about leaving the felt safety for what is outside of the felt safety, which I apperceptively or near-apperceptively know is the actual safety of infinitude – which ought really to be an obvious choice. Perhaps, after much pondering and contemplating, it is indeed just gay abandon that is required. (link)
Hi Claudiu,
“Good confidence” is certainly a great starting point for “gay abandon”, and you can cover the distance between the two via abundant naiveté, by being naiveté itself –
Richard: And as ‘he’ continued standing there on the greensward, extolling the virtues of being naiveté itself, ‘he’ realised ‘he’ had just dedicated ‘his’ life to the priceless pursuit of innocence itself – of becoming the manifestation of this innocence here on earth, of being the personification of innocence in this lifetime – and, thence, to extolling the virtues of the giving of ‘himself’ to this worthy cause, in a way which ‘his’ previous dedication to art and artistry (‘he’ had lived it, breathed it, been consumed by it, twenty-four-seven) couldn’t even begin to compete, as nothing, but nothing, could ever be as worthy of devoting one’s life to as the pristine perfection and peerless purity presently unfolding all about.
For out of nowhere and everywhere – the overarching benignity and benevolence inherent to the infinitude, which this infinite and eternal and perpetual universe actually is, had by now been operating more and more freely – came a magically scintillating wonderland, dynamically enveloping all and sundry in its sparkling embrace, and ‘he’ vanished unto oblivion in the twinkling of an eye (…). (A Quaint Clay-Pit Tale)
Being naiveté, “becoming the manifestation of this innocence here on earth” is exactly what you apperceived when you recently reread Richard’s quote of “standing naked before infinitude”, which touched you so deeply that you stated with great confidence –
Claudiu: I reread it and was just blown away by how immaculate and perfectly articulated Richard’s writing is. I experienced what I’ve called “Richard’s energy” while reading it – which refers to pure intent, of course. The flawlessness of what he apperceptively wrought leaves nothing but admiration and a salient desire and aim – I want to be that! (link)
You can be that! What an extraordinary adventure!
Cheers Vineeto