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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

Talking Of Colors

Talking Of Colors

September 21, 2026 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

You cannot talk of colors
to the blind.
But a still greater ill
than blindness
is delusion.
Delusion believes that it sees,
and that it sees in the only possible manner,
   even while this its belief
      robs it of sight.

What Is Called Thinking by Martin Heidegger, Part II, Lecture V, page 166

To feel satisfaction, that sense of having arrived, that I have lived long and have learned enough, that I “get it”, is a nudge from the cosmos that I am missing a great deal, my POV of possessing the correct answer, – is evidence of delusion.

Even if I believe that I can see.

Still what is the point?

As noted: you cannot talk of colors to the blind.

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