"If a human being did not have an eternal consciousness, if underlying everything there were only a wild, fermenting power that writhing in dark passions produced everything, be it significant or insignificant, if a vast, never appeased emptiness hid beneath everything, what would life be then but despair? If such were the situation, if there were no sacred bond that knit humanind together, if one generation emerged after another like forest foliage, if one generations succeeded another like the singing of birds in the forest, if a generation passed through the world as a ship through the sea, as wind through the desert, an unthinking and unproductive performance, if an eternal oblivion, perpetually hungry, lurked for its prey and there were no power strong enough to wrench that away from it--how empty and devoid of consolation life would be!"
-Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
Having decided that there is enough despair in the world, how can I shake it off? How can I choose something different? How can I tear my eyes away from vastness and emptiness of the gorge now that I have seen it?
A human being cannot embrace an abyss. There is nothing to hold on to.
About Me
- Daniel
- What we know is reflected in bars of light projecting from headlights on the road above; they illumine the depths of our wants and shake us naked as infants, lions, and fools, while ripples crash like waves upon our homes and send us flying, disorganized, one step beyond.
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