Phenomenology of Spirit

“Without this formative activity, dear remains inward and mute, and consciousness does not become explicitly for itself. If consciousness fashions the thing without that initial absolute fear, it is only an empty self-centered attitude; for its form or negativity is not negativity per se, and therefore its formative activity cannot give it a consciousness of itself as essential being. If it has not experienced absolute fear but only some lesser dread, the negative being has remained for it something external, its substance has not been infected by it through and through. Since the entire contents of its natural consciousness have not been jeopardized, determinate being still in principle attaches to it; having a ‘mind of one’s own’ is self-will, a freedom which is still enmeshed in servitude. Just as little as the pure form can become essential being for it, just as little is that form, regarded as extended to the particular, a universal formative activity, an absolute Notion; rather it is a skill which is master over some things, but not over the universal power and the whole of objective being.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).
 
Tree branches creak

like the fast melting snow

Where are you from?

Time to go

In the thaw I

feel the

awe

In the

thaw

I feel

awe

Clock snaps its arms

Guillotine swing

Darkest of beats

Marches to Spring

Resist instinct

all to end

Let light

in

Let me be

cured

In the thaw I

feel the

awe

In the

thaw

I feel

awe