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There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
-Eric Hoffer
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There Is A Perfect Ant, A Perfect

Eric Hoffer
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. there is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. he is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. it is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. for, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
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We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as god made it, out in the place where god made the ant to be. when we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. he is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of god, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. the ant and the man are both creatures.
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And now you ask in your heart, ‘how shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, but it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. for to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, and to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, and to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * people of orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.
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This is what metaphor is. it is not saying that an ant is an elephant. perhaps; both are alive. no. metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. now, logically speaking, i know there is a difference. if you put elephants and ants before me, i believe that every time i will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. so metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. it comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.
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I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. she reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. don't swat. don't even think about swatting. if you feel angry, whistle. anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. above all, send the bees love. every little thing wants to be loved.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that i encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. back in the 1960s, i was calling for 'unfinished music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - i was taking unfinished work into the gallery. and that's how i was looking at it.
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