There are authors with truly impressive powers of assimilation, and we realize that they often cannot define whether the ideas they express are their own or come from the references they reveal. Of course, there is some foundation for true learning. In order for an idea to be grasped, it has to be felt as one’s own, even if it is later abandoned. Ideally, however, the greatest intellectual will be the one who encompasses everything and absorbs everything; thus, since nothing is foreign to him, he is able to express everything as his own.
Category: Notes
If It Were Possible to Realize…
If it were possible to realize, whenever something is lost, what is necessarily gained by losing it, life would be viewed very differently. Firstly, because possessions weigh down, consume and bind: the sadness of losing them would be compensated by the awareness of liberation. But, above all, because to understand this ambiguity, sometimes veiled but omnipresent, is to situate oneself much better in a reality that simultaneously deprives and enables, while always leaving room for strengthening and affirmation.
Fear Is Often Humiliating, Because Once…
Fear is often humiliating, because once it is recognized as unfounded, one has to admit to wasting opportunities that will never come again. Then one thinks about how much one does not do because of this feeling which, if it is not cowardice, has an undesirable restrictive effect. No one feels at ease when faced with the image of a worse future; however, the means of glimpsing it are so precarious that it is almost always best not to worry.
The Attitude of Someone Who Is Sincerely Looking…
The attitude of someone who is sincerely looking for answers is to be open to all sources of information that may be able to help him in his business, regardless of how reliable they may seem, something that should only be analyzed later. Not to do so would be to close off possibilities beforehand, something unthinkable for someone who wants the truth first and foremost, and therefore craves any clue that might lead to it. In fact, the credibility of a source is only a problem for the hasty journalist, who has to conclude before researching. Apart from that, there is always something useful to be found.