Note:
Today i could not stay silent.
Too much happened, bad and good.
All in all, we all stay in the continuous tension between the quest for meaning
and being (existing) in the presence, our experience shaping our consciousness.
It is and remains an immense effort to walk out of culturally imposed egocentricity and
concentrate our flow of kindness into this world and to other humans in spite
of doubt and thought. It is a pure act of perception, feeling and participation. It is the transformation
of our true despair into the creation of hope, the music rising from our own hells
and out of the suffering of the world towards the vision of possibility for joy.
A. Camus:
"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me — that is what I understand. And these two certainties — my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle — I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?
If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning, or rather this problem would not arise, for I should belong to this world. I should be this world."
...
"The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."
[…]
"I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death — and I refuse suicide."
supplement:
Hannah Arendt
“The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same,” adding: “The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.”
on silence and speaking:
Paul Goodman
"Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos."
From the same book, Paul Goodman, Speaking and Language, Defence of Poetry:
"The transaction of speaker and hearer is fundamental, though the hearer my not respond
nor even, as in poetry, be a real person.
For this transaction, the speakers use an inherited code (which could be called a "means"),
but it is not constant, and the actual language is the tension between the code
and what needs to be said,
Communication is not the conveyance of meanings from one head to another
by means of language: it is the language itself being said and understood."
later on in a summary, on himself:
"I have to justify my needs with meanings."
note: i had to smile on this last sentence...
for me it is not to justify...it is to make my life richer
and to create
for me it is not to justify...it is to make my life richer
and to create
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