Start from Paradise

In recent months and weeks, many thoughts have been arising and coming clear on the connection between melancholic longing or Sehnsucht and the way this feeling is both a kind of optical illusion and a distinct revelation of or pointer toward our real being and identity.

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Sehnsucht is essentially nostalgia for the infinite, nostalgia for paradise. C. S. Lewi...