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Definitions, and Comment:
Being a Description of the World
By Eli Siegel

76. Spontaneity

Spontaneity is an action’s coming to be immediately, because a self is pleased with what it is.

Life goes more and more towards spontaneity. Life, as I have said, is motion in a thing, caused by itself, through pleasure and pain. With pleasure and pain present, a thing with mind wants to have the immediacy of action of paper burning, rain falling, an egg hatching. Where there is true spontaneity, a self knows wholly what it is, and is pleased with what it is; and spontaneity here is a good purpose. This means that spontaneity and being wholly pleased are synonymous.

© 1945 by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism
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