An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.