I'll attempt to reconstruct the arguments leading to this hard-to-grasp realization of an industry so often idealized from the outside.
The realization, grasped only gradually as details of the catastrophe emerged, proved paralyzing, energizing and confounding all at once.
In other cases, the language of "seeing" is used in its extended sense of realization, as when a yogi is said to "see" his or her identity with Brahman; Buddhists speak of "seeing things as they are" as one of the hallmarks of true enlightenment, where this means grasping or realizing the emptiness of things, but not in a purely intellectual way.
Instead of adhering to the completely autonomous subjectivity of Fichtean philosophy, Novalis argues that the subject is inwardly split, not just between thought and feeling, but ultimately also between the hubris of believing that thought can in fact grasp the basic self-feeling, and the realization that this feeling cannot be conceptually processed as such.
When Chinese readers talk about Gatsby today, some see a cautionary tale of materialism run amok; others point to the potential danger in the gap between riches and power; and still others recognize the dawning realization that that one may never grasp the dream he so desires.
If anything, the book enchants readers who might not entirely grasp its concepts with the delight in not knowing; the realization that even the most know-it-all kids do not, in fact, have all the answers and that certain questions are worth asking.
Such terms as "emptiness" and "dependent origination" are sometimes understood in metaphysical terms, but in the context of Mahayana Buddhist tradition, they are not concepts by which to grasp reality, but above all elements of practice, expressing the realization of the person who enters into profound samadhi by cutting off discriminative thought and eradicating afflicting passions.
Indeed, Rosenzweig claims here that only by taking the transcendence and at once the revelation of God seriously rather than reducing the divine to an expression of a Jewish life force can we grasp the split the human being experiences in history, between his personal self-realization and the realization of the world.
Despite Kepler's criticism of Aristotle, this aspect can actually be considered the realization in the field of astronomy of the old Aristotelian ideal of knowledge: "knowledge" means to grasp the causes of the phenomena.
Let the breeze of change cleanse the stasis of your enterprise. Bring to your core the realization that the life and vitality of your company walks hand-in-hand with its ability to grasp, envision, and integrate many facets of continuous change both globally and locally and everything in between.
