One of the greatest inherent difficulties in investigating reality is harmonizing the awareness of individual insignificance with the individual need to act. The former comes automatically, when one contrasts the size and complexity of the universe with the possibilities of the observer. However, if we accept being, if we accept the irrevocability of being, we must also accept a reason, a necessity. Hence the conclusion: one is almost nothing, what one does is almost nothing, but one is because it is a force to be and to do
The Best Literature Is Always…
The best literature is always that which is most connected to direct experience, on which the author’s individuality rests. No matter how much or how well he idealizes, his spirit will be most intense when describing not what he imagines, but what he knows. This is why, in many cases, it is the biography that supports the author.
Hindu Literature, Whose Real Exuberance…
Hindu literature, whose real exuberance existing translations have not yet been able to reveal to the West, can no longer inspire anything but awe in the Westerner who investigates it. The truth is that, sometimes, an imaginatively poor and precariously translated Hindu text is already capable of evoking a reality so impressive that only by using all his imaginative capacity can the Westerner conceive of it. It is therefore worth admiring it, even if grasping it may seem unfeasible or inconvenient.
Procrastination, in the Face of the Conscience…
Procrastination, in the face of the conscience of duty, is an infamy. It shames and saddens. And yet it is so commonplace… It seems that it can only be overcome through habit, which is constantly threatened by the opposite habit, which, if allowed, really shames and saddens. The conscience of duty, therefore, results in a permanent tension, which seems bearable, and even manageable without much effort, as long as the productive cycle continues and repetition seems simpler than interrupting it. Procrastinate once, twice, and the situation changes completely…