What is the world?

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. –Franz FanonMore

The Worst in Our Lives–and the Best

What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue. –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Now

we don’t have to be afraid of / Her / darkness, / of / Our darkness, / For there is power there, beyond our wildest dreams. –Sarah L. HarveyMore

blinking illusions

Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. –Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the ShoreMore

Addiction

All joy wants eternity! Wants deep, deep eternity! –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Expecting the dark

So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. –KierkegaardMore