life-affirmation – Page 5

Blood Matters

…not the blood of violence, but the blood of community….More

Demonstration

Nota BeneMore

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

Labor, or, Do you feel it now

[Labor] is an eternal natural necessity which mediates the metabolism between man and nature, and therefore human life itself. –MarxMore

Behind

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. –SartreMore

Dialogue Concerning Memory

Remember–to EMBRACE forgetting!More

A Strange Ideal

Granted that this also is only interpretation — and you will be eager enough to make this objection? — well, so much the better. –Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilMore

All of us are trees

If I wished to shake this tree with my hand, I should not be able to do so… –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

One quick, perhaps enduring note on the shared world

As above

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When you left…

…tremors of love through your brief, / Undeniable selves…. –Mark Strand, “The Continuous Life”More

Something Different from Happiness

I chase after my work! –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Clearly enough

Is there not also still lacking–humanity itself? –NietzscheMore

I wish I could see the sky from here

The clearest sky is plenty opaqueMore

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

The Breath of Indistinction

Good, better, best / never let it rest / until your good is better / and your better best. –My Great-GrandmaMore