"It was during the years of my lowest vitality that I ceased to be a pessimist. The instinct of self-preservation forbade me a philosophy of poverty and discouragement. As it were, that is how those years appear to me now. I soon discovered life anew…including myself. I turned my will to health, to life, into a philosophy … into the will to power.”
Thank you. I will and I love that.
And what you just said - might come just a wee bit closer to a god that I might believe in if I wasn’t agnostic…“you figure it out”. Now that would be a god who actually values what it is which was created, in my book.
arc please look at the father god post…you can make up something you believe in and call it a god…most people will not accept this but who gives a ------
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
~St. Augustine
I’m not sure, little reptile. He might have been a bit patriarchal or simply focused on his own past.
BUT, men does include all of humanity in my book.
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina