Obvious Absurdities
PD Ouspensky, in the first chapter of In Search of the Miraculous
talks of how on his return to Russia from his ‘mystical seeking’ in the East he saw the world as one of ‘Obvious Absurdities’. He is referring to a book of the same name he had read as a child which was full of pictures of ridiculous things such as a man with a house on his back or a carriage with square wheels. Ouspensky says that the book made a great impression on him because it featured many pictures which he could not understand as actually being absurd. To him as a child, they seemed to be accurate depictions of how things were in life and he goes on to say that as he grew older this perception did not only not dissipate but in fact grew stronger - he began to see life as consisting solely of ‘Obvious Absurdities’.
Obvious Absurdities
PD Ouspensky, in the first chapter of In Search of the Miraculous
talks of how on his return to Russia from his ‘mystical seeking’ in the East he saw the world as one of ‘Obvious Absurdities’. He is referring to a book of the same name he had read as a child which was full of pictures of ridiculous things such as a man with a house on his back or a carriage with square wheels. Ouspensky says that the book made a great impression on him because it featured many pictures which he could not understand as actually being absurd. To him as a child, they seemed to be accurate depictions of how things were in life and he goes on to say that as he grew older this perception did not only not dissipate but in fact grew stronger - he began to see life as consisting solely of ‘Obvious Absurdities’.