22/11/2025
I wanted to share this song as listening to it this brought tears to my eyes, because how much it resonates with me … Hope it feels as meaningful to you as it feels to me …
The Unspeakable World - Adi Goldstein
But you know if you talk all the time
You will never hear what anybody else has to say
And therefore, all you’ll have to talk about is your own conversation
The same is true for people who think all the time
That means, when I use the word, “Think”, talking to yourself
Sub-vocal conversation
The constant chit-chat of symbols and images
And talk and words inside your skull
Now, if you do that all the time
You’ll find that you’ve nothing to think about except thinking
And just as you have to stop talking to hear what I have to say
You have to stop thinking to find out what life is about
And the moment you stop thinking
You’d come into immediate contact with what
Korzybski called, so delightfully, “The unspeakable world”
The most ordinary sights and sounds and smells
The texture of shadows on the floor in front of you
All these things, without being named
And saying, “That’s a shadow, that’s red
That’s brown, that’s somebody’s foot”
When you don’t name things any longer, you start seeing
(…)
And it is only through stopping fixing conceptions on the world of colour and sound
That you really begin to hear it and see it (…)
