Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:00:43 -0400
From: edwin ruda <edwin.ruda-AT-verizon.net>
Subject: Re: obeying




> And if the hammer dissolves the cobwebs
> within which our thoughts are entangled and that constitutes our subjective
> life then that means that we become attentive to the objective, the real
> that is there in our everyday situations. We are then prepared to deal well
> with everyday affairs because we are not lost in our own subjective thoughts
> constantly interpreting the world. We are at the ready so to speak, in
> attention, ready to sieze the moment and act well. We then know how to make
> the most of the present.
>
Gulio,

I wondered then about this "present" in which I might capture
and overcome by some means my quandaries, and whether such
awareness might after all be ungraspable, so that "to deal well"
would turn on an (im)possible, formidable task. And then, what
of "amour fati" that admonishes us beforehand of the ravages
as well as the strengths of life that we are asked to either
accept or "fall to our knees and bite the dust"?
Is there not a positive ambiguity here that strengthens thought
itself?

"Contradiction is a stimulus to thought." (Nietzsche)

Ed

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