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the silence within. the silence without.

'Feeling himself unable to go forward, he must destroy the accumulations in which he has recognized himself and come to put his trust in the possibilities of the unknown'.

what is 'recognizing' (oneself or another) then? is it not a kind of affinity for silence, a search for a truer, more essential character?

the white space has its own density, its own sense of light, time. is neither full or empty, beginning or end. distinctions! the white, like the black, that passes beyond the thing. how to stand outside of oneself (ex-stasis) whilst within? to be and not be (which is neither thought, nor action)

'light from without would slowly reveal the light within...the white as a denser substance-some ghostly reminder of another place in which Rothko once said he could breathe and stretch his arms'.