We Reach Ecstasy By A Contestation Of

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.

Inner Experience ... Is Not Easily Accessible And, Viewed From The Outside By Intelligence, It Would Even Be Necessary To See In It A Sum Of Distinct Operations, Some Intellectual, Others Aesthetic, Yet Others Moral. ... It Is Only From Within, Lived To The Point Of Terror, That It Appears To Unify That Which Discursive Thought Must Separate.

Each Of Us Is Incomplete Compared To Someone Else - An Animal's Incomplete Compared To A Person... And A Person Compared To God, Who Is Complete Only To Be Imaginary.

Pleasure Only Starts Once The Worm Has Got Into The Fruit; To Become Delightful, Happiness Must Be Tainted With Poison.

The Essence Of Morality Is A Questioning About Morality; And The Decisive Move Of Human Life Is To Use Ceaselessly All Light To Look For The Origin Of The Opposition Between Good And Evil.