The Importance of Maintaining an Eye Vow Relationship With the World

Instead of seeing things as it, see things as yous. This is something that also reminds me of Martin Boober's Eye Vow. Instead of always maintaining the purely individual level of me and you, there's this direct dialogue between the self and the divine. It's a very non-platonic way of seeing things, but it allows things to exist for themselves. There's really nothing more to say about it than it's uncanny because you're not seeing a tree. As Aristotle said, every object has its own substantial form. The whole intellectual scaffolding that you use as a kind of overlay to make sense of the world will disappear... You'll just be faced with a

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