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“delusion of reprieve.”
What else remained for us as a material link with our former lives?
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. I
“Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.”
To draw an analogy: a man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What
No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
