There is no real satisfaction until the mind learns to focus on the small, the accessible and the quotidian. The mind is treacherous because, with eyes closed, the act is weightless and knows no limits. If one is careless, one can easily go too far, learning nothing and doing nothing. There may be pleasure, certainly distraction, but both are diaphanous, both are devoid of the characteristic density of the real, which substantiates the small and generates true fruit.
Category: Notes
Choosing One Path
Choosing one path is always not choosing all the others, and that is what makes it special. Choosing, then, is choosing and giving up, and sustaining it involves both valuing the path chosen and accepting the distance from those not chosen. Many people cannot bear it, just as they cannot bear the fact that to live is to choose. However, whether one likes it or not, giving up a choice is also a choice, and one ultimately reaps the rewards of this decision.
Sometimes It Seems That the Revolt…
Sometimes it seems that the revolt is colossally stupid, and even if we try to justify it, we can see a background of immaturity that it cannot get rid of. Above all, it shows a lack of a minimum sense of proportionality, capable of realizing that the contrast between subject and object often places them on different planes, leaving to the weaker side, if sensible, only the conscious integration.
It Is Change That Dynamizes Life
It is change that dynamizes life and, precisely when it is most unwanted, demonstrates its greatest potential. The desire for stability, which is very natural, is also to a large extent the desire for comfort. However, since this is unproductive, so is the intransigent resistance to change. It is true that sometimes change is forced upon us, and it does not come without tears and pain; but we have to assimilate it, we have to grow by assimilating it, and end with a smile of acceptance.