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What's the difference between the wet and dry paths?

>Because one continually sees the world through the lens of [a] desired equilibrium, one never pays attention to things as they are, but “cloaks” them with the thought of the satisfaction, restitution, compensation, or reward they are imagined to promise us. However, Weil thinks that this tendency is deeply rooted in life itself, insofar as each living thing acts as an inside that appropriates what lies outside it for its own purposes, for its own future.

>It follows, then that to contemplate things as they are, “unshrouded by some imagined future,” is to see things as though one were dead; “[o]ne has to be dead to be able to see things in their nakedness.”