In this post I would like to share with you a great quote from the philosopher E.M. Cioran and a few ideas that came to my mind when I started to think about it a little bit more deeply:
I think the big strength of this post lays in its irony. People work hard all day, suffer, endure, hope and sweat because they think that they'll get something for this. They would like to feel that they own something and they have power over something. But the truth is you will never really own anything. You are here on Earth just for a few years, and when you finish you journey, you will let everything here, even you own body. And what a revelation for a beings, who doesn't own anything, to discover this truth, really what a pride for a minuscule creation that he can observe this. Really, can he reach a higher level of knowledge, more than that can anything in the world reach a higher level of knowledge than that of being conscious of its own littleness and the negligibility of its existence. And from this point we can go to the next step where Cioran says: The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. And we can see that this pride, the pride that we are conscious of our littleness, is possibly the only thing that can be a reason for us to live.
On the other hand, how good is to feel that you have power over the world surrounding you. You can change it, you can transform it. Moreover, this is your task here on Earth, to make your environment resemble your personality. To get to a level, when you can feel at home, and feel that you really do live life, and this has an effect. I think it is interesting to think in this duality. To always see both sides of an issue gives you maybe the only achievable freedom. Helps you destroy illusions and in the same time to destroy the illusion that you can destroy illusions. And I think somewhere at this level only begins the real human being.
And what is the only sense of life is to give a sense to life...
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