WITH thunderand heavenly fireworksmust one speakto lethargic and drowsy senses. But beauty’s voicespeaks gently:it appeals onlyto the most awakened souls. My buckler gently vibratedand laughed to me to-day;it was beauty’s holy laughing and thrilling. At you, you virtuous ones,laughed my beauty to-day.And thus came its voice to me: “They want – to be paid…
Why did I startle in my dream, so that I awoke? That is the question isn’t it? Dreams and night visions are the stuff of literature. The story of Macbeth comes to mind. No one knows for sure from whence comes a dream. I remember talking about dreams with a therapist. She recognized dreams…
Tuesday and wondering how to get started with this post. This weirdly delightful story parallels the Creation Story in Genesis. You know, the temptation of Eve segment with the talking serpent. Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s alter ego, is portrayed as encountering a talking adder, while napping. The shock of the encounter was extreme, as he wakes…
We watched a film, The Long Good Friday, an Aurora Film Society showing, in company with a room full of other film buffs. Yes, this was a chilling gangster film. The leading man in the tale is Harold Shand played by Bob Hoskins. Harold’s girlfriend, Victoria, is played by Helen Mirren. The film reminded me…
The wandering sage observes that humans create tribal units by a process of valuing, by labeling as good or as evil – behaviors, practices, forms of life, etc., etc.. Much that passed for good with one peoplewas regarded with scorn and contempt by another:thus I found it. Much found I here called bad,which was…
I press forward to learn as much as possible about the ancient practice of Stoicism. The Greek and Roman adherents to the Stoic practice of self-reflection, the mindful analysis of emotion, – desired to become virtuous individuals. The ability to respond to whatever fate served up, preserving one’s sense of identity, reciprocating with clarity…
…the Artisten-Metaphysik suggeststhat individuals are alienatedfrom actuality, the synchronicity of the terms suffering, willing, and becomingimplies that the experience of alienationspeaks not so much to humanity’sisolation from actualitybut of the point ofits most intimate unionwith it: ‘This world is will to power — and nothing besides!And you yourselves are also this will to power…
My intention was the preceding post as my final comment on The Dawn of Day. After all the featured quotation by Nietzsche appears on the last page of his book. And yet three more “pearls of wisdom” remain, which beg for comment. The first of the three aphorisms is equivalent to a Molotov cocktail…
It is snowing outside. It is the first snow of the season to significantly cover everything, and the snowplows are out. Snow covered asphalt reacquaints us with the laws of physics. With a warming climate, winter snow, as it happens, comes later, and less of it. I can remember the blinding snowstorms of many…
Evil was visible, opaque, localized… We have exorcised it, liberated it, liquidated it. But has it, for all that, ceased to be Evil? Not at all: it has become fluid, liquid, interstitial, viral. That is the transparence of Evil. It is not a transparency in the sense that you might see through it. It…
