\u201cMistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n -Salvador Dali Rationalize, understand, sublimate\u2026 <\/span>This sounds a lot like Vipassana<\/span> meditations where we are taught to \u2018watch\u2019 emotions, sensations, thoughts, and so on; to not get caught up in them. The goal is to realize that they arise and fall away without any power to control us on their own.<\/p>\n Sublimation <\/span>is a tricky term here. Given that Dali was highly influenced by the psychoanalytic movement, which is in turn influenced by phenomenology, which goes back to Hegel, I would make the stretch toward his understanding of Sublimation, or in German aufheben<\/span>:![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.briansewell.com\/images\/salvador-dali-in-sea.jpg\")
<\/a>This speaks to our <\/span>reactive<\/span> tendencies<\/span>: problem? fix it! So much of our lives consist of \u2018quick fixes\u2019 and superficial bandages on problems\/mistakes that go quite deep in our lives\/society. How does the story in Australia go? They had too many weeds, so they brought in rabbits to eat them, then they had too many rabbits so they brought in snakes (or foxes) to eat them, then they had too many of those, and so on\u2026 A common example where I live is people who hate their jobs but love cars and so spend a third of their adult lives miserable for the 5-10% of the time they can spend in their beloved automobiles.<\/span> And then they\u2019re usually miserable in their cars too!<\/p>\n
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