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By Inner Experience I Understand That Which One Usually Calls Mystical Experience: The States Of Ecstasy, Of Rapture, At Least Of Meditated Emotion. But I Am Thinking Less Of Confessional Experience, To Which One Has Had To Adhere Up To Now, That Of An Experience Laid Bare, Free Of Ties, Even Of An Origin, Of Any Confession Whatever. This Is Why I Don't Like The Word Mystical.

If I Give Up The Viewpoint Of Action, My Perfect Nakedness Is Revealed To Me.

To Others, The Universe Seems Decent Because Decent People Have Welded Eyes. That Is Why They Fear Lewdness. They Are Never Frightened By The Crowing Of A Rooster Or When Strolling Under A Starry Heaven. In General, People Savor The "pleasures Of The Flesh" Only On The Condition That They May Be Insipid.

Entirety Exists Within Me As Exuberance In Empty Longing In The Desire To Burn With Desire.

The Analysis Of Laughter Had Opened To Me Points Of Contact Between The Fundamentals Of A Communal And Disciplined Emotional Knowledge And Those Of Discursive Knowledge.