Nietzsche for Today

to see whether one finds in oneself that natural disgust for vulgarity and for every base interest, that will for a voluntary, clear discipline, that ability to freely establish “values” and to achieve them without giving up whatever the cost, those values that define the Overcomer, the man not broken among so many things that are broken today. Continue reading

Creativity, Nonduality, Inspiration

You hear — you do not seek; you take — and do not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes as a necessity, without hesitation — I have never had any choice in the matter. There is an ecstasy so great that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears during which one does not know whether one is coming or going. ~ Nietzsche Continue reading

Nietzsche, Aquinas, Dante

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Nietzsche’s claim to fame is as a psychologist. In that, he can be very insightful in exposing hypocrisy, ressentiment, and the like. In that as a side effect, he is a creator of the modern world which has replaced discussion and dialog with accusation. Today, a man’s ideas are barely considered, but instead his motives are questioned; certain points of view are even considered to be “mental illnesses”. Continue reading

The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon

Marriage Of Sun And Moon

An ecstasy of joy, whose immense tension sometimes dissolves into a stream of tears, and whose pace is sometimes like a storm and sometimes becomes slow; a state of being completely beside oneself, yet with the clearest consciousness of an infinite number of fine tremors and wave-like vibrations running down to the very toes; a depth of happiness, in which all that is painful and dark, does not act as a contradiction but as a necessary condition, a challenge, as a necessary colour within such an abundance of light; an instinct for rhythmic proportions, which spans extensive realms of form — the extension, the need for an all-encompassing rhythm ins almost a criterion for the power of inspiration, a kind of compensating counter-force against its pressure and tension. Continue reading

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