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[theblow]

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing with him the image of a cathedral."

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[theblow]

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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[kathy_x0]

It strikes me as a bit arrogant of us humans to think we can alter reality with just a contemplation.

[malathion]

The world is represented to us only as an infinite series of possible appearances, anyway.

[taryndaani]

Behold, the power of human imagination. =)

[mathnerdguy]

And as soon as he forgets the idea and goes off to do something else, it's a rock pile again.

[ersatz_marduk]

Sort of like a Zen koan, but replacing the word "mountain":

"First there is a cathedral. Then there is no cathredal. Then there is."

You could change it to "rock pile" just as easily and the idea would still be the same.

[taiirei]

Agree!
It's still a rock pile if there's nothing done about it. Labels exist in the imagination only until they get applied.

[renuka31]

but the rock pile would be a dream. and that dream may become a shattered dream, so the rock pile would simply be a shattered dream

[musicalfrog]

j'aime beaucoup st-ex!