Whatever It Is

I guess there are certain moments when we realise it is necessary to leave the world of appearances behind, when we need to transcend our own thoughts, when we feel the urgency to get rid of useless visions that only blur our perception of the world and of our inner selves. Anyway, the point is that what may look like an apple to you, may seem like the shaking Globe being the seed of a tree to me or the other way round. Perhaps it is neither, perhaps it is both. Perhaps we are just creating a big lie because the apple doesn't even exist. It could also be possible that the apparent simplicity of the apple conveys such a complexity that in the end we cease to exist. How many different essences can the apparent apple have? Who knows? After all, we don't know about universal truths, and your ideas may be fine for you, but they may not apply to my life. We can agree in some things, but in others we may be completely different, and no one is better than the other, we're just individuals... Well, for me there's only one exception: prejudices. If you've got a prejudice, just treasure it, delight in it, and (above all) keep it to yourself... Leave the others alone.

René Magritte, This Is Not an Apple

*Let's consider this. Don't you think it's possible that Magritte wants to deceive us? He wants us to doubt this is indeed an apple, but what if it is an apple and nothing but an apple??? Well, there's nothing wrong in trying to consider all possibilities though, because some of us just need to go deeper and deeper in order to survive. :D