It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.