Areté

The reality of the universe

and of the world...

Was it the force that drove the man

to be creative and to invent the heavens and the earth?

In form of multiple realities –

the mountains and the oceans,

rivers, grass, the trees, the languages and music,

civilization, God?

And then, conceived by man,

these same analogies –

are now the building blocks

of matter that we all collectively perceive as “real”?

But into this reality,

is it the quality that’s resting uncomfortably

under the pyramid of such subjective

blocks of stone - the romantic and an intellectual division

of the world of views to cover up the truth from us?

How one could possibly perceive, and then explain

the quality in such dualistically challenged reality

where knowledge is derived from an object's only aspect

or merely from underlying substance?

Is it the choice of quality that’s based

on our a priori analogies

that is defining on reality that we all,

collectively, and intimately know today?

Could it be that quality

is but another one, distinct reality

existing and uniting

the objective and the subjective realms?

Is there a way the contemporary man

could possibly unite and benefit from

an amalgamated, dualistic view of such reality –

both a subjective and an objective point of view?

And to accept the realm

of quality as a parental

to both the classic and

to the romantic realms?

By re-arranging the metaphysical hierarchy

and by allowing quality

to intermingle and to coexist with time

one then could define two sides of one, dynamic quality.

And so, the pre-intellectual reality that is the romantic quality,

evolves from the emotional, romantic realm

and the intellectual reality – the classic quality,

evolves from the mental and the subjective realm.

Where quality pre-dates reality,

created it and it is part of it.

It is It. It has been always there.

Thus simply everything and all is always one.