The Three Virtues: Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality

“To be present at the dawn of the world. Such is the link between imperceptibility, indiscernibility, and impersonality – the three virtues. To reduce oneself to an abstract line, a trait, and to find one’s zone of indiscernibility with other traits, and in this way enter the haecceity and impersonality of the creator. One is then like grass: one has made the world, everybody/everything, into a becoming, because one has made a necessarily communicating world, because one has suppressed in oneself everything that prevents us from slipping between things and growing in the midst of things.”

(Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi)