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Black is beautiful
"I challenge you today to see that his spirit never dies...and that we go forward from this time, which to me represents
CRUCIFIFIXIION on to a
REDEMPTION and a
RESURRECTION OF
THE SPIRIT
Mrs. Martin Luther King

He learns that the "yes" or "on" elements of energy cannot be experienced without contrast with the "no" or "off, " and therefore that darkness and death are by no means the mere absence of light and life but rather their origin. In this way the fear of death and nothingness is entirely overcome. Because of this startling discovery, so alien to the normal common sense, he worhsips the divinity under its female form rather than its male form---for the female is symbolically representative of the negative, dark, and hollow aspect of the world, without which the masculine, positive, light, and solid aspect cannot be manifested or seen...
he discovers that existence is basically a kind of dancing or music---an immensly complex energy pattern which needs no explanation other than itself---just as we do not ask what is the meaning of fugues...Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight and all life is to be lived in the spirit of rapt absorption in an arabesque of rhythms.
...In Western Civilization we over accentuate the positive, think of the negative as "bad," and thus live in a frantic terror of death and extinction which renders us incapable of "playing" life with a noble and joyous detachment. Failing to understand the musical gravity of nature, which fullfills itself in an eternal present, we live for a tomorrow which never comes...But through understanding the creative power of the female, of the negative, of empty space, and of death, we may at last become completely alive in the present.
Alan Watts