Concentrate attention
Never determining
Actual position
An unsettled ocean carries that water of delight.
“But if the thing exists, then it is what it is, even if the experience, which would experience it, did not exist, and even if the thoughtful thinking did not exist, which would determine it in an objectively valid way.” – Edmund Husserl
Must express
Contrast function
Of what is
Looking and seeing continue evolving as a necessary function of existence.
“All that is necessary is to represent the contrast of what is, not only with what has been, but also with all that might have been.” – Henri Bergson
Atmospheric droplets
Refraction dispersion
Arch of color
Sometimes it pays to turn around and look in the opposite direction.
“Suppress all interest, all feeling, and there is nothing left but the reality that flows, together with the knowledge ever renewed that it impresses on us of its present state.” – Henri Bergson
Come to me
Cruise control
Rubbed my eyes
Photography is a continuous process of exploration which fuels a love affair with life.
“The thing is given in experiences, and yet, it is not given; that is to say, the experience of it is givenness through presentations, through appearings.” – Edmund Husserl
Principle that
Has only to
Let go its tension
As fast as a speeding train.
“In order that our consciousness shall coincide with something of its principle, it must detach itself from the already-made and attach itself to the being-made.” – Henri Bergson
Something added
Sensuous manifold
Contingent conquest
Humans construct spatial order.
“When we undertake to found order, we regard it as contingent, if not in things, at least as viewed by the mind: of a thing that we do not judge to be contingent we do not require an explanation.” – Henri Bergson
Matter mass
Distinct bodies
Interest action
Illumination is a moving target.
“There is no doubt that life as a whole is an evolution, that is, an unceasing transformation.” – Henri Bergson
Causes effects
Narrow entirety
Particular manifestation
Complex energy wave patterns are here a surface phenomenon showing luminous colors that change when seen from different angles.
“The vital order, such as it is offered to us piecemeal in experience, presents the same character and performs the same function as the physical order: both cause experience to repeat itself, both enable our mind to generalize.” – Henri Bergso
Element mechanism
Externalized by relation
Necessary determination
The sound side of the Outer Banks offers its own tension.
“Meaning is always only an opinion in the sense that it always stands in need of evidence that can never be given definitively.” – Edmund Husserl
Entirely adaptable
Intellectual conceptions
Home on wheels
Seeking advice from random strangers found wandering around an unfamiliar town may not advance enlightenment.
“In a general way, reality is ordered exactly to the degree in which it satisfies our thought.” – Henri Bergson