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A traveler who has seen many countries, peoples, and many parts of the world, and who is asked what characteristics he finds in people everywhere, might answer: they tend to be lazy.

By Martil Guevara Published 2 years ago 4 min read
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For Nietzsche, the nineteenth century stumbled because of the influence of two things: the great democracy and atheism. The former brought a torrent of unappreciated jealousy and vicious resentment; the latter left people without direction and a sense of morality. It is like a door separating people; outside the door is a self, inside the door is another self, and how many people can achieve this high level of self-life as Nietzsche said?

An excerpt from Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is an inspirational essay on life: "But whatever does not kill you will eventually make you stronger.

Zarathustra once went to the mountains to find solitude. In the masses, you can find yourself lonely, but never alone.

Loneliness is a hunger for others. You miss others. You are not enough for yourself - you are empty. So everyone wants to be in the masses and then weave all kinds of relationships around themselves just to deceive themselves and forget that they are lonely. But loneliness will pop up again and again. No interpersonal relationship can hide it. All relationships are so weak. You know deep down that even if you are in a crowd, you are with a group of strangers. You are also a stranger to yourself.

Zarathustra and all the mystics have been to the mountains in search of solitude. Loneliness is a positive feeling, that is the feeling of your nature, that is the feeling that you are enough for yourself - you do not need anyone.

Loneliness is a disease of the heart.

Loneliness is therapy.

Those who understand loneliness have transcended it forever. Whether they are alone or with people, they return to their center. On the mountain they are alone, and in the masses they are alone, for this is what they know: solitude is our nature.

We enter the world alone, and we will leave it alone. Between these two solitudes, between life and death, you are still alone; but you do not understand the beauty of solitude, and therefore you fall into a fallacy - the fallacy of loneliness.

For a man to discover his loneliness, he must get out of the mass. Slowly he will forget about the world, all his awareness will be focused on himself, and then there will be an explosion of light. He learns for the first time the beauty and blessings that belong to solitude, the freedom, and wisdom that belong to solitude.

When Zarathustra lived in the mountains, he often carried a snake with an eagle. In the East, the serpent always represents wisdom. The greatest wisdom is to slip out of the past, not to cling to it, just as the snake slips out of its old skin and never looks back. It always moves from the old to the new.

Wisdom is not a collection of the past; wisdom is the experience of life that is continuously renewed.

Wisdom does not gather the dust of memories; it is like a clean mirror that reflects what is - it is always fresh, it is always new, and it is always in the present.

The eagle is a symbol of freedom. It crosses the distant sun in the boundless sky alone, without fear. Wisdom and freedom are two sides of the same coin.

After ten years on the mountain, Zarathustra reached the ecstasy, the purity, the independence that comes from solitude - this is what sets him uniquely apart from other awakened ones: when they find out, they still stay on high. Zarathustra began to 'go down, he returned to the masses.

He had to deliver the message to mankind that you are suffering unnecessarily, that you are dependent unnecessarily, that you are creating for yourself all kinds of captivity - just to feel safe and secure. But the only security and stability are to know yourself because then even death is powerless. It cannot destroy you.

Zarathustra is going down to tell people that wisdom is not the same as knowledge; in fact, knowledge is just the opposite of wisdom. Wisdom is naivete. Knowledge is the ego, while wisdom is the disappearance of the ego. Knowledge makes you full of information[lizhigushi. com]. Wisdom makes you empty, but that emptiness is a new kind of fullness. That is spaciousness.

He is going to people to tell them that wisdom brings freedom. There is no other freedom - political, economic, social freedom is all false. The only thing that is real is the freedom of the soul, which can become an eagle while flying fearlessly into the unknown and unknowable.

Because he has reached this state of ultimate consciousness, he wants to share it. What makes him unique is that he still loves mankind. He has no condemnation for the sleeping, blind people. He has great compassion for them. He wants to go down because he loves life. He is not against life.

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