When one tries desperately to be good and wonderful and perfect, then all the more the shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.
Month / October 2018
Age of Anxiety.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Restoring Pride.
Some people, no doubt, are born, and destined, to be common, to live out their lives to no significant purpose, but that is relatively rare…
Poems and Letters.
One needs to observe and experience the world with naive, pure eyes in order to attain a great weltanshauung.
Philosophy: Who Needs It
As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation…
On Procrastination.
Remember how long you have been putting this off…At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to: what power rules it and from what source you spring, that there is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you do not use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.
Marcus Aurelius- Meditations
On Loneliness.
Injustice and fifth they may throw after the lonely one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must not shine less for them because of that. And beware of the good and the just! They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves- they hate the lonely one.
Friedrich Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Art of Living.
The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, the center that’s impossible to find when you are socially engaged. This is the departure when the hero feels something has been lost and goes to find it…
Seeds planted in concrete.
Do not fret if you have yet to find it, this lucid and dreamlike love they speak of, this fervent and inspiring tenderness. Do not fret if you have yet to find it, rather, open your heart to an atlas and stretch your fingertips towards the sky- for the world is also capable of holding your hand, and my god, is it ever beautiful, the kind of love you find tucked away within yourself when the Earth opens your eyes.
That too is a choice.
In all important transactions of life we have to take a leap in the dark…If we decide to leave the riddles unanswered, that is a choice we make, if we waiver in our answer, that too is a choice, but whatever choice we make, we made it at our peril…
Grey Brick Road 