life-affirmation – Page 9

Behind the face of the moon we see

…just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us… –RilkeMore

Some questions

The poets will either save us or help us still love in our disasterMore

An Alternative Ending to Plato’s Phaedo

I saw inside his cloak and caught on fire and was quite beside myself. –Socrates in CharmidesMore

A glance at perspective

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. –Thomas NagelMore

It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes. While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More

Trying on different lives.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life. –NietzscheMore

Shots of Poetry

I am a (poorly written) love letterMore

Flammable

Fire seems to love all thingsMore

I think I’ll take a warm bath

They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching Thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” –Henry David ThoreauMore