My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a "private being" which has meaning only for himself. Now there is no meaning for a lone individual: bing alone would of itself reject the "private being" if it saw it as such (if I wish my life to have meaning for me, it is necessary that it have meaning for others: no one would dare give to life a meaning which he alone would perceive, from which life in its entirety would escape, except within himself). At the extreme limit of the "possible", it is true, there is nonsense . . . but only of that which had a prior sense: this is fulguration, even "apotheosis" of nonsense. But I don't attain the extreme limit on my own and, in actual fact, I can't believe the extreme limit attained, for I never remain there. If I had to be the only one having attained it (assuming that I had . . .), it would be as thought it had not occurred. For if there subsisted a satisfaction, as small as I can imagine it to be, it would distance me as much from the extreme limit. I cannot for a moment cease to incite myself to attain the extreme limit, and cannot make a distinction between myself and those with whom I desire to communicate.
~George Bataille, "Inner Experience" pg. 42
Tags: friendship experience communication individualism being being-yourself bataille extreme-limit inner-experience ipse
But what is great can only begin great.
Martin HeideggerTags: greatness philosophy time metaphysics beginnings great being begin being-and-time
Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of our being?
Nema Al-ArabyEver, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?
Nema Al-ArabyThis is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
H Raven RoseTags: pain fortune karma tarot being gypsy
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May SartonSince poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.
Czesław MiłoszTags: life poetry nothingness being
G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598
Tags: humor inspirational self self-knowledge observation outlook being attitude-towards-life
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jim MorrisonTags: life art time perfect hour lives creator being
To be or not to be, that is the choice
Daniel Lee EdstromTags: choice being daniel-lee-edstrom
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